1 option
Ruth / Katharine Doob Sakenfield.
Van Pelt Library BS1315.3 .S25 1999
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob, 1940-
- Series:
- Interpretation, a Bible commentary for teaching and preaching
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Ruth--Commentaries.
- Bible.
- Bible. Ruth.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 91 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Ky. : John Knox Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Ruth is one of "the little books of the Bible", only four chapters long. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld has written a commentary of unusual sensibility and discernment that makes very clear why this book has such great importance as literature and as scripture.
- Ruth is a very human book; its subject matter is the stuff of everyday life: family, marriage, children, homes, food, departures, deaths, good times, and bad times. The narrative is a drama of ordinary human affairs, but the drama unfolds against a background of the providence and purposes of God.
- In this excellent commentary Sakenfeld does justice to both the human and divine dimensions of the text. Her interpretation is both sociological and theological, a synthesis reflective of the simple profundity of the story itself.
- The commentary is sure to become a classic resource for reading the book of Ruth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0804231494
- OCLC:
- 41885821
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.