General Resources for Ruth
(Check the
Scripture Index for links and study resources pertaining to specific pericopes)
- Introductions, Overviews & General Resources:
- Ruth at Luther Seminary's Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based self-tests. CD-ROM of Advanced Studies also available at their site.
- Book of Ruth, Wikipedia.
- Book of Ruth, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1905.
- Introduction to the Book of Ruth, New American Bible.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia: Book of Ruth.
- Introduction, Outline, and Selected Bibliography for the Book of Ruth, by David Malick at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
- Bible Basics (Ruth) by NetMinistries. (Very basic - includes .wav files with pronunciation of Biblical words)
- Ruth in the World Wide Study Bible.
- Walking Through the Bible: Judges, Ruth.
- Biblenotes summary: Ruth.
- Commentary, Exegesis, Studies,etc.:
- Ruth, Geneva Study Bible, 1599.
- Ruth, Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706.
- Ruth, Wesley's Notes, c 1760.
- Ruth, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
- Ruth, Scofield Reference Notes, 1917.
- "Life and Literature of the Late Period," Gerald A. Larue in Old Testament Life and Literature, 1968.
- Five Scrolls, Barry Bandstra, Reading the Old Testament.
- Ruth: Study Notes, Dr Tim Bulkeley, 2004, University of Auckland.
- The Book of Ruth, verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com.
- Ruth, Expository Notes, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005 edition.
- Articles and Background:
- Hebrew Has a Word for It (1), Hebrew Has a Word for It (2), Ruth is from Moab but Boaz is from Bethlehem, Chance or Providence? 5 Minute Bible Podcast, Tim Bulkeley, 2015.
- "Ruth," sermon discussion from Frederick Buechner, Frederick Buechner Blog.
- "Ruth is from Moab, but Boaz is from Bethlehem," Tim Bulkeley, 5 Minute Bible (podcast).
- Megillat RUTH: Hesed and Hutzpah, A Literary Approach, study guide by Noam Zion, Tichon Program, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, 2005.
- "Reading Malinche Reading Ruth: Toward a Hermeneutics of Betrayal," Robert D. Maldonado, Semeia 72: Taking It Personally, 1995.
- Ruth: At His Feet Until Morning, from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible, by Ronald L. Ecker.
- "Ruth and the Sense of Self: Midrash and Difference," Judaism, 1999.
- "The Bold and the Biblical," Deborah Belonick, BeliefNet, July 2000.
- "The Family in the Bible," James A. Sanders, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2002.
- "Engaging Biblical Women," Lillian Klein, Bible and Interpretation, 2003.
- "The Determiniation of Social Identity in the Story of Ruth," Victor H. Matthews, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2006.
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Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Aschkenasy, Nehama,
"Reading Ruth through a Bakhtinian Lense: The Carnivalesque in a
Biblical Tale," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Bender, David M.,
"The Diary of Ruth: An Imagined World," Journal for Preachers,
2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Blotz, Joseph W.,
"Bitterness and Friendship: A Feminist Exegesis of the Book of Ruth,"
Currents in Theology and Mission, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Bovell, Carlos,
"Symmetry, Ruth and Canon," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Chisholm, Robert B.,
Jr.,
"A Rhetorical Use of Point of View in Old Testament Narrative,"
Bibliotheca Sacra, 2002. (Extensive section on
point of view in Ruth.)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Chu, Julie L.C.,
"Returning Home: The Inspiration of the Role Dedifferentiation in the Book
of Ruth for Taiwanese Women," Semeia, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Collins, C. John,
"Ambiguity and Theology in Ruth," Presbyterion, 1993.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Fisch, Harold,
"Ruth and the Structure of Covenant History," Vetus Testamentum,
1982.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Glanzman, George S.,
S.J.,
"The Origin and Date of the Book of Ruth," The Catholic Biblical
Quarterly, 1959.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Grant, Reg,
"Literary Structure in the Book of Ruth," Bibliotheca Sacra,
1991.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Green, Barbara, O.P.,
"The Plot of the Biblical Story of Ruth," Journal for the Study of
the Old Testament, 1982.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Grossman,
Jonathan, "'Gleaning among the Ears' - 'Gathering among the Sheaves':
Characterizing the Image of the Supervising Boy (Ruth 2)," Journal of
Biblical Literature, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Holbert, John C.,
"The Bible Becomes Literature: An Encounter with Ruth," Word & World,
1993.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Howell, James C.,
"Between Text and Sermon: Ruth 1:1-18," Interpretation, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Landy, Francis,
"Ruth and the Romance of Realism, or Deconstructing History," Journal
of the American Academy of Religion, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Loretz, Oswald,
"The Theme of the Ruth Story," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1960.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Luter, A. Boyd and
Richard O. Rigsby,
"An Adjusted Symmetrical Structuring of Ruth," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Martin, Michael W., "Betrothal Journey Narratives,"
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Masenya, Madipoane,
"Struggling with Poverty/Emptiness: Rereading the Naomi-Ruth Story in
African South Africa," Journal of Theology for South Africa,
2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Merrill, Eugene H.,
"The Book of Ruth: Narration and Shared Themes," Bibliotheca Sacra,
1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Moore, Michael S.,
"Ruth the Moabite and the Blessing of Foreigners," The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 1998.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Moore, Michael S.,
"Two Textual Anomalies in Ruth," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Prinsloo, W.S.,
"The Theology of the Book of Ruth," Vetus Testamentum, 1980.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Rauber, D.F.,
"Literary Values in the Bible: The Book of Ruth," Journal of Biblical
Literature, 1970.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Shepherd, David,
"Violence in the Fields? Translating, Reading, And Revising in Ruth 2,"
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Thomas, Nancy J.,
"Weaving the Words: The Book of Ruth as Missiologically Effective
Communication," Missiology, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Westermann, Claus,
"Structure and Intention of the Book of Ruth," Word & World,
1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Wolfenson, L.B.,
"Implications of the Place of the Book of Ruth in Editions, Manuscripts, and
Canon of the Old Testament," Hebrew Union College Annual, 1924.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Aschkenasy, Nehama,
"Reading Ruth through a Bakhtinian Lense: The Carnivalesque in a
Biblical Tale," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2007.
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