The Plain Sense of Things

Ruth

The Book of Ruth, though short, plays a very significant role in the Bible. Ruth is

really the only women in the entire bible to have an entire chapter devoted to her,

however short that chapter may be. The Book of Ruth resembles the Book of Jonah, in

that they both have a moral lesson, but this lesson may not be why the Book of Ruth was

written. Because of the Book of Ruth, we know that during the time it was written it was

not a completely patriarchal society, that women played a, small but never-the-less, role.

Had the Book of Ruth never been written all both Christianity and Judaism would have

had very different views of the significance of women.

The Book of Ruth tells a story of a Hebrew woman named Naomi, who had two sons.

After Naomi’s husband died she left with her two sons to the land of the Moabites. There,

her two sons married two...