INTERPRETATION- RUTH HB

The narrative of the 'Book of Ruth' is a drama of ordinary human life, but the drama unfolds against a background of the providence and purposes of God. This excellent series of interpretative commentaries is designed to meet the need of students, teachers, ministers and priests for a contemporary expository commentary. Katharine Doob Sakenfield has written a commentary that makes very clear why the Book of Ruth has such great importance as literature and as scripture. The brilliance of this commentary lies in its even-handed treatment of both the human and divine dimensions of the text; Sakenfield's interpretation is sociological as well as theological. She assesses all the significant questions about the origin and purpose of the book, and wisely asserts that the organising centre of a proper reading must be found in the narrative itself rather than in tentative answers to historical questions.