Your People, My People: An Exploration of Ethnicity in Ruth

This article reviews competing theories of ethnic identity to suggest different points in the book of Ruth at which Ruth the Moabite may become an Israelite. Close reading of the text favours the suggestion that Ruth enters the Israelite ethnie upon her acceptance by the Bethlehem community in ch. 4...

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Main Author: Glover, Neil (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2009, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 293-313
Further subjects:B Ruth
B Ethnicity
B Ethnology
B Anthropology
B Primordialism
B Constructivism
B Ezra—Nehemiah
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