Monday, May 25, 2020

Ruth consumes the bread of kinship

PROF. CYNTHIA CHAPMAN: The Substance of Kinship: How Ruth the Moabite Became a Daughter in Judah (TheTorah.com).
Ruth’s consumption of barley and wheat gleaned from the field of Boaz was an integral step in her transformation from a “foreigner” who arrived from the fields of Moab to a “daughter” in Judah.

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