![]() She loves teaching an introductory Old Testament course. Raised in Toronto, Marion has been teaching Old Testament at Wycliffe since the mid-1980s. The famine is over barley harvest is just beginning (mid-to late April).” ( ) “Chapter 1 ends where it began-in Bethlehem, a small village of a few hundred people. As Katharine Sakenfeld suggests, Ruth ‘in effect invites Boaz to make good on the prayer he made earlier on her behalf.’” ( Pages 60–61) “‘wings’ (plural of kanap) now provided Ruth with refuge, would richly reward her for what she has done ( Ruth 2:12). We can cry out to God from the depths of our sorrow and pain believing that God will hear us, that Jesus is with us in our suffering, and that God’s spirit groans on our behalf when the pain is unbearable.” ( ) “Laments are not failures of faith they embody faith. As the rest of the book of Ruth unfolds, we will witness Naomi’s transformation as her needs begin to be met through the hesed of Ruth and Boaz.” ( ) Naomi had a number of basic needs that had to be met before she could begin to hope and to care again. “Naomi was not in a place where she was ready to accept help, as her refusal to even acknowledge Ruth shows. Naomi certainly saw the hand of God behind her afflictions ( Ruth 1:21).” ( ) ![]() ![]() “Given what we know about the period of the judges, it is possible that the famine in Bethlehem and perhaps even the deaths of Elimelek and his sons and their childless marriages were linked to covenant unfaithfulness. ![]()
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