It’s interesting to note that originally Ruth was part of the book of Judges. It was only separated out to accomodate scripture reading during Jewish liturgical rituals. So while there was all this really awful ugliness gong on all around as described in the rest of Judges, (”people did what was right in their own eyes”) we saw God moving his plan forward in the persons of the wonderful and innocent Ruth, Naomi and Boaz.
Thanks for that. I did not know that is was originally in Judges.
I don't see how this is possible. Judges is among the Prophets and was written under the spirit of nevu'ah (prophecy) while Ruth is one of the Five Megillot in the Writings and was therefore written under ruach haqodesh which is one step lower.
Don't tell me . . . you're going by "higher criticism," aren't you??? Do you subscribe to higher criticism of the "new testament" as well, or is that "different?"