Interesting, though I suspect that OrpahnWinfrey’s parents were familiar only with the accounts in the Bible.
Making this additional information interesting but inapplicable.
“Interesting, though I suspect that OrpahnWinfrey’s parents were familiar only with the accounts in the Bible.
Making this additional information interesting but inapplicable.”
Maybe, or they weren’t deep thinkers.
Even if one just relied on the text of the Book of Ruth, you see a woman loved by her sister and her mother-in-law — AND — who was a serious candidate for conversion. Naomi urged them to go three times — Ruth said no three times. Orpah said no twice, and recanted G-d (and women and people she loved and who loved her) on the the third time.
It sets her and her family to be the nemesis of Ruth and her family.