“Waiting on Your Boaz”: Everything Wrong With How We Read Ruth

MUST READ: it’s amazing how I read the book of Ruth Multiple times and watched movies about her story and couldn’t find where she waited for him like they most people claimed. Wow!

Maggie Felisberto's Blog

For those of you who have been around here for a long time, you know that I have a strong affinity for a biblical hero named Ruth.  She’s one of two women to have an entire book of the (canonically accepted, sorry Judith!) Bible dedicated to her story.  She’s one of the very few women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus, and she’s awesome.  She’s in fact, very very awesome.

So how come this is how we’re taught to read Ruth?:

Seriously, what the hell?

We should definitely be encouraging women to avoid partnering with neglectful or violent men, when they can be spotted (sometimes you just don’t know until it’s too late). We should moreso be encouraging men and women both to speak out against sexual violence, without constantly placing the blame collectively upon women’s shoulders, but I digress.  Having fallen victim to dangerous men in the past, sexual violence one…

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