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birth of Boaz and Ruth's son, Obed, who will continue the line unto David. But is the announcement of this birth in Ruth 4:13 or the genealogy from Perez to David in Ruth 4:18-22 any different from any other birth or genealogy texts in the biblical narratives? How does this really distinguish the biblical God from any other acts of conception He makes throughout the text, from Genesis onward? To say that God is thus a fertility god, because the emphasis in the text is on completing the Davidic line, seems like a giant stretch in my mind and, in fact, somewhat contrary to the biblical ethos. Is not the God of Israel always revealing Himself as something other than the surrounding idols of the ancient Middle East? Baal, for example, does not come out looking very good when we have finished reading the Prophets! Finally, it might be noted that, even if Ostriker's point about the 'fertility' orientation of God in the Book of Ruth is the central point of the text, Ostriker has killed her own gynocentric reading of it, for then the real center of the story becomes Obed: the son who completes the messianic line. However much the story is about Ruth, it is most centrally, then, about her m

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Author

E. Tyler Graham

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Taylor & Francis; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0048-721X)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences