{"id":211608928300,"title":"Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy (BKE-RUTH)","handle":"ruth-from-alienation-to-monarchy-bke-ruth","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"ProductDescriptionContainer\" style=\"font: 12px\/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"\u003e \u003ch2 style=\"margin: 5px 0px; padding: 3px 5px; color: #222222; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRuth\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003ch3 style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: 1.1em;\"\u003eFrom Alienation to Monarchy\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch2 style=\"margin: 5px 0px; padding: 3px 5px; color: #222222; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: small;\"\u003eBy: Yael Ziegler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: small;\"\u003eIn this fluent and penetrating study of the Book of Ruth, Yael Ziegler provides a masterful primer on how to read biblical narratives with sensitivity and depth, using recent methodological breakthroughs in the study of Tanakh. Beyond providing an eye-opening reading of a familiar biblical book, the author creatively demonstrates that midrashic readings can reveal deep strata of textual meaning, and combines these insights with classical and contemporary scholarship to uncover the religious messages of this beautifully crafted story. In Ruth: From Alienation and Monarchy, modern techniques of literary analysis and rabbinic homilies merge to yield common insights into themes such as leadership, redemption, identity, and social morality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: small;\"\u003eThe Book of Ruth, with its focus on the exemplary behavior of Ruth and Boaz, stands at the crossroads between society’s downward trajectory during the era of the Judges and its ascent during the era of the monarchy. 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