Goodness

“ for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.” Ruth 3:11 Tucked between the saber rattling of the Book of Judges and the power and panoply of the six books about the kings of Israel lies the quiet little Book of Ruth. It consists in its entirety of just 85 verses. It is the one book in the Bible which devotes itself to the domestic history of a woman —a for­eigner in Israel, no less! In idyllic, pastoral scenes, it leads us in four short chapters from famine,...