wolfbiblemoon

Ruth is a pretty nice story in comparison to recent chapters and books. There is a total lack of God's interference, noone is slaughtered and people are actually getting along and being kind to each other.

Ruth's dedication to her widowed Mother-in-law even after she loses her own husband is very touching, and it continues after Ruth remarries as she keeps her Mother-in-law around to help look after the baby.

Ruth (the book) shows some of the many laws being put into practice in day to day life, like the leaving of crops during harvest for the poor to collect and that a widow is to marry a relation of her dead husband. The man Ruth marries is a relation of her Father-in-law who doesn't sleep with Ruth when she throws herself at him, he admits he knows of a closer relative who'd have first refusal of Ruth and the family land and checks with him first before agreeing to the marriage.

That was a welcome change of pace.