Ruth: JPS Bible Commentary
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Ruth: JPS Bible Commentary   -     By: Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Tikva Frymer-Kensky

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Product Description

In Ruth, Boaz fulfills the obligation to marry the widow of a deceased relative who was never able to father children---in order to continue the family line and protect an otherwise vulnerable woman. A substantive study of levirate marriage, redemption and inheritance, hesed, and the holiday of Shavuot. 216 pages, hardcover. Jewish Publication Society.

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Title: Ruth: JPS Bible Commentary
By: Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 216
Vendor: Jewish Publication Society
Publication Date: 2011
Dimensions: 10.00 X 8.00 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 6 ounces
ISBN: 082760744X
ISBN-13: 9780827607446
Series: JPS Commentary
Stock No: WW607441

Publisher's Description

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Deutsch.

The latest in the JPS Bible Commentary series, 2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women’s Studies

The moving story of Ruth, with its themes of loyalty, loving kindness (hesed), and redemption, is one of the great narratives of the Bible.

Socially, the Israelites were aware of their responsibility to protect the weak and unprotected among them. Redemption secures the life of the people as a community, not just as individuals. In this story, Boaz fills the familial obligation to marry the widow of a deceased relative who never was able to father children, both to continue the family line and protect an otherwise vulnerable woman.

The authors provide a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the 1985 JPS English translation. The extensive introduction places the book within its historical, literary, and critical context, discusses contemporary interpretations of the story of Ruth, and examines its major motifs and themes, among them: family, marriage and levirate marriage in biblical and ancient Israel, redemption and inheritance, hesed, and the book’s connection with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

Author Bio

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi is professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She is the first woman appointed as professor to the rabbinical faculty in HUC-JIR’s long history. Earlier she had been on the faculty of the University of Denver, directed the Institute of Interfaith Studies, and co-founded the Jewish Women Resource Center in Denver.
 
Eskenazi is the chief editor of The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, the winner of the 2008 Jewish Book of the Year Award presented by the Jewish Book Council. She has served on the executive committee of the Society of Biblical Literature, and her numerous published articles include: In an Age of Prose: A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah (1988) and Second Temple Studies 2: Temple and Community in the Persian Period (1994). An expert in postexilic history and literature and in the Bible, Dr. Eskenazi has presented papers national and international at scholarly conferences.
 
Tikva Frymer-Kensky z"l was a professor of Hebrew Bible and the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her areas of specialization included Assyriology and Sumerology, biblical studies, Jewish studies, and women and religion. She was the author of Reading the Women of the Bible (which received a Koret Jewish Book Award in 2002 and a National Jewish Book Award in 2003), In the Wake of the Goddesses, and Motherprayer.

Editorial Reviews

"Ruth, the newest in The JPS Bible Commentary series, is a magnificent achievement. This commentary by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky is an important addition to the extant scholarship on this biblical book."—Jewish Book World

"The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth is a product of the contemporary world and gives voice to contemporary concerns."—David J. Zucker, Women in Judaism

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