Book of Ruth

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Name after the ÖVBE. Bracketed names are followed by the Septuagint. Kursiviert: Deuterocanonical books, in Protestant Bibles Apocrypha

The Book of Ruth and Ruth is a book of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. Since the Middle Ages, it is divided into four chapters. The Book of Ruth includes as an amendment in the Hebrew Bible, a total of 85 verses. In the tradition, it is considered as an appendix of the book of Judges and accordingly placed before the books of Samuel. However, the " foreign peoples motive " ( Ruth the Moabitess ) leaves many a boom time of composition in post-exilic period suspect (not before the second half of the 6th century BC). In Judaism, the Book of Ruth is one of the five Megillot, the hard rolls, and is read in the festive liturgy of the Jewish week festival. The book is about 1000 BC, the time of the Judges in Israel. Obed, the son of Ruth, is the grandfather of David.

Content

The book of Ruth tells the story of a Jewish family that has to emigrate because of a famine from Bethlehem in Judah to neighboring Moab. Naomi (one of the main characters of the novel ) and Elimelech move with their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion into the unknown, where soon afterwards dies Elimelech. The two sons married Moabite women, Ruth and Orpah, but remain childless. After the sons died, Naomi remains as a widowed woman with her now also widowed daughters- back alone.

Orpah will continue to operate in Moab, Ruth insists, however, to draw with her ​​mother to Israel, although it has to be expected there as a Moabite woman with rejection.

In Israel, Ruth worked as a gleaner in Boaz, a relative of Naomi. Boaz noticed Ruth recognizes her exceptional commitment to her family ( 2:11 ff ), and favored them. Then Ruth from Naomi gets the advice to lie down at night after the fieldwork to Boaz. Boaz Ruth promises to marry her. There is, however, another relative who also has, according to the levirate law the right and the obligation to marry Ruth. Since he refuses, Boaz Ruth triggers and takes her to wife. Ruth gives birth to a son, Obed the father of Jesse and grandfather of David. Ruth is thus also related to Jesus (see the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew and Luke 3.32 1.5 EU EU)

People

  • Naomi ( " the lovely " ), later Mara ("The Bitter ", "The Bitter " )
  • Ruth ( " the friend " )
  • Boas ( " the Strong " )
  • Elimelech ( " My God is King " )
  • Mahlon ( " the Sickly " )
  • Chilion ( " the Weak " )
  • Orpah ( " which abkehrende " )
  • Obed ( " the servant ", " the servant " )
  • David ( " favorite " ) is the great-grandson of Ruth and Boaz

Remembrance of the main character Ruth

  • Evangelical: July 16 in the calendar of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
  • Orthodox: the penultimate Sunday in Advent

Quotes

  • " Ruth said, not urges me to leave you or to turn back. Where are you going, then I will follow, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, I will be buried. The Lord is to me, and do -. , Only death will separate me from you " (Ruth 1:16-17 EU)

Trivia

  • Ruth 1:16 b EU ( see above) is often chosen as a vow. From the biblical context, this verse does not understand than the promise of a woman to a man or vice versa, but as a promise of a woman at her mother.
  • In the genealogy of Jesus according to Matthew 1.1 ff EU is Ruth (v. 5b), one of five women who are mentioned. Beside her are: Tamar (v. 3a), Rahab (v. 5a), Bathsheba (v. 6b) and Mary ( v. 16).

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