In this episode, Jill takes a look at the book of Ruth, considering three major areas of investigation taken up by scholars: the concept of chesed, the custom of levirate marriage, and issue of Ruth’s ethnicity.

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I96G6RU96WAuFXs59KyPVoLMyKzlP5AD/view?usp=sharing

Sources for this episode include Kathleen Farmer's comments in the New Interpreter's Bible and Jeremy Schipper's Anchor Bible Commentary on Ruth.

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