Ruth

Introduction & Background History to the Book of Ruth

• Meede, Roberta Jean. The Status and Role of Motherhood in Ancient Israelite Narrative: The Barren Wife Stories and the Book of Ruth. M.A. Thesis, University of Alberta, Canada, 1998. (pdf)
• Bulkeley, Tim. Study Notes on Ruth. Hypertextbible.
• Constable, Thomas L. Ruth: Expository Notes. 2006. (pdf)
• Maldonado, Robert D. "Reading Malinche Reading Ruth: Toward a Hermenteutics of Betrayal." Semeia 72 (1995).
• Morgenstern, Mira. "Ruth and the Sense of Self: Midrash and Difference." Judaism 48, no. 2 (1999): 131ff.
• Klein, Lillian. "Engaging Biblical Women." Bible and Interpretation, 2003.
• Hubbard, Robert W. Jr. "The Go'el in Ancient Israel: Theological Reflections on an Israelite Tradition." Bulletin for Biblical Research 1 (1991): 3-20.
• Waard, Jan de. "Translator's Handbook of Ruth." The Bible Translator 21 (1970): 157-169.
• Levey, Samson H. trans. Targum of Ruth.

Commentaries

• Wright, Charles H. H. The Book of Ruth in Hebrew, with a Critically-Revised Text, Various Readings, ... and a Grammatical and Critical Commentary.

Manuscripts & Versions

• Thompson, Herbert. A Coptic Palimpsest Containing Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Judith and Esther in the Sahidic Dialect.

Ruth 1

• Britt, Brian. "Death, Social Conflict, and the Barley Harvest in the Hebrew Bible." JHS 5, no. 15 (2005). (pdf)

Ruth 2

Ruth 3

Ruth 4

• Bewes, Julius A. "The Goel in Ruth 4:14, 15." American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature 20 (1903-04): 202-206. (pdf)

Bibliographies

• Matthews, Victor H. Ruth and Esther - Gender-Related Bibliography.