A Nameless and Shoeless Kinsman

One of the striking things in the book of Ruth is not what we find written on its pages, but what we are not told, and what God does not want us to know. Apart from the groups of people -- such as the women who met Naomi when she returned to Bethlehem; the people who witnessed the fact that Boaz said that he would redeem the land of Elimelech by marrying Ruth; and the women who spoke so glowingly when the son, Obed, was born to Boaz and Ruth -- the individuals whose words and actions are...