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(Re)reading Ruth
William A. Tooman
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(Re)reading Ruth
William A. Tooman
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The book of Ruth seems simple. It is the tale of a poor Moabite widow who relocates to Bethlehem and finds security there when she marries Boaz, a wealthy Israelite man. Although the plot is simple, the book's message is elusive. Re(reading Ruth) demonstrates how careful attention to the book's structure, allusions, wordplay, and location in the canon can reveal the dynamic ways that it engages with other biblical stories and how that engagement shapes its message.
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Biblical Criticism & Interpretationchapter 1
Reading Ruth
Why would anyone need help reading Ruth? Compared with long, intricate narratives like Paradise Lost, War and Peace, or Ulysses, Ruth is very short and very easy to read. In fact, Ruth is sometimes characterized as the simplest of biblical stories. Armstrong Black thought it âunadorned and homely.â1 Ronald Hals found it difficult to praise Ruthâs âsimple styleâ and settled on indistinct adjectives like âwarmâ and âstraightforward.â2 Thomas Paine believed it to be so artless as to be stupid. Ruth is âan idle, bungling story, foolishly told, nobody knows by whom, about a strolling country-girl, creeping slyly to bed with her cousin Boaz.â3 But, is Paineâs caricature accurate? Is Blackâs or Halsâ?
What I will attempt to show in this chapter is that Ruth is quite simple in some ways and highly complex in others. It is simple enough that any reader can understand the basic contours of the story: the charactersâ personalities, the problems they must overcome, and many of the twists and turns along the road from crisis to resolution. But this, I will argue, is a flat representation of the story, a mere sketch, reflecting only a rudimentary understanding of the storyâs intricacies. Ruth, like all biblical narratives, operates by a different set of conventions (ârulesâ if you like) from modern narratives. If we want to arrive at a better understanding of its ideas and artistry, we will need to learn to appreciate these rules. Our first step, then, is to recognize how biblical storytelling differs from modern storytelling and to become aware of the ways that those conventions can extend and develop our comprehension and our pleasure.
Three Distinctives of Biblical Hebrew Narrative
Terseness & Density
One of the most obvious features of biblical narrative, when compared with modern literature, is its terseness. All the little details that give authenticity to a novelâdescriptions of settings, weather, clothing, colors, meals, facial expressionsâare rarely mentioned in the Bible. At best, we might be told that an encounter happed on a street or in the country, or we might be given a characterâs name. Physical features of characters are almost never described. Whether indoors or outdoors, settings are seldom described. Bare events and one-to-one dialogue are the stuff of biblical storytelling. The biblical writers do not attempt to make their stories seem more realistic by filling them up with detail.4 There are small exceptions to this rule, to be sure. We know that Ehud was left-handed, that Abraham fed roast goat to three angels, and that Joseph was a beautiful man. In all these cases, though, no further details are offered that would add realism and authenticity to the story world. Even these sparse details are only provided because they introduce or reveal something essential about the characters and events in the story. This, in a nutshell, is what accounts for biblical terseness. Biblical writers only provide readers with essentials.5
This is also what makes biblical literature difficult to read and assimilate. It is dense. Events occur quickly, one after another in staccato. Dialogue is bereft of all the conversational cul-de-sacs and start-and-stop elements that we experience every day in nearly every conversation. In the Bible, almost every sentence is a topic-sentence. But biblical stories are not just dense in their contents and quick in their pacing. Poetic elements also occur more densely in biblical literature than in modern prose. âPoeticsâ is the literary term for the forms, conventions, and aesthetics of literature. It refers to features like cadence, figures of speech, imagery, characterization, repetition, plot structure, and wordplay. In short, it refers to all the thi...
Table des matiĂšres
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Reading Ruth
- Chapter 2: Act 1 ~ Ruth 1:1â22
- Chapter 3: Act 2 ~ Ruth 2:1â23
- Chapter 4: Act 3 ~ Ruth 3:1â18
- Chapter 5: Act 4 ~ Ruth 4:1â22
- Concluding Postscript
- Appendix: Ruth in the Jewish and Christian Bibles
- Bibliography
Normes de citation pour (Re)reading Ruth
APA 6 Citation
Tooman, W. (2022). (Re)reading Ruth ([edition unavailable]). Wipf and Stock Publishers. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3287871/rereading-ruth-pdf (Original work published 2022)
Chicago Citation
Tooman, William. (2022) 2022. (Re)Reading Ruth. [Edition unavailable]. Wipf and Stock Publishers. https://www.perlego.com/book/3287871/rereading-ruth-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Tooman, W. (2022) (Re)reading Ruth. [edition unavailable]. Wipf and Stock Publishers. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3287871/rereading-ruth-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Tooman, William. (Re)Reading Ruth. [edition unavailable]. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.