Posted on 09/27/2020 6:06:29 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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14 So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
15 He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he went back to town.
16 When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?”
Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her 17 and added, “He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
18 Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”
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“Boaz Gives Wheat to Ruth”
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“He measured six measures of barley”
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by REMBRANDT
“Boaz Casting Barley into Ruth’s Veil”
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BOAZ REDEEMS . .
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1 Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
2 Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so. 3 Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. 4 I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.”
“I will redeem it,” he said.
5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”
6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”
7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.
9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”
11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”
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by RUTH COLLET
“Boaz sits at the gate with his nearest of kin and
arranges to buy all of Naomi's property and to marry Ruth”
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the short film “Ruth, a Faithful Woman”
“Gideon Gives His Sandal”
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by CHANA HELEN ROSENBERG
“The Sandal Ceremony”
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BOAZ WEDS RUTH,
& BABY OBED IS BORN!. .
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13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. 14 The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! 15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
16 Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. 17 The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
“Ruth and Boaz”
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by YOSI MIZRAHI
“Ruth and Boaz”
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by SWANSON
“Ruth Marries Boaz and Obed is Born”
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by SIMEON SOLOMON
“Ruth, Naomi and Obed”
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“Naomi Holds Obed”
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by CHANA HELEN ROSENBERG
“Naomi and Oved”
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“Ruth, Naomi & Obed”
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by “Boaz, Ruth, Naomi & Obed”
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SNEAK PEEK: Next time, RUTH ART
“SPECIALTIES”. .
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R E S O U R C E S . .
If you'd like to see for yourself the Bing page
which yielded most of the works above, here is the link:
"Boaz, Kinsman Redeemer"
Where no attribution appears below a work,
the artist's name is unknown;
numbered to facilitate your commenting
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Links to three masters who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON van RIJN
GUSTAV DORÉ
241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours
JAMES TISSOT
180 watercolors depicting Bible scenes
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This series keeps moving from one Bible passage to another,
so here is a fascinating and enjoyable link to assist in following along:
BIBLE TIMELINE
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Finally, here are links to the
PREVIOUS 85 POSTS IN THIS SERIES
, with descriptive titles to assist you in finding those which interest you
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SPECIAL THANKS
to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!
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NOTES ON MY SELECTION CRITERIA Q u a l i t y The Bible and its Author are my focus, not the art:
this is The Bible in Paintings, not “Great Paintings” nor even “Good Paintings.” So, works need not be masterpieces to qualify for inclusion here—they don’t need to be housed at the Louvre nor auctioned by Sotheby’s. They only need to illustrate successfully some aspect of the Biblical text or, frankly, just tickle my fancy, which I'm asking the Holy Spirit to guide. Often, artists misrepresent the Scripture, but unless the error is material or heretical I usually include the artwork, trusting that the Spirit is perfectly capable of defending Himself. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.P a c i n g The pace may seem glacial to those eager to see their favorite events. My commission is to search for art on each Bible passage in sequence; if I find enough, then it becomes the next installment, even if undramatic. But where there is no art, that Bible passage goes untold here. The Bible is a thick book, as you know; but we'll get there eventually, Lord willing. Always remember:
love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control is a fruit of the Spirit!Art is merely the Toy Department of Bible study,
so I’m just having fun here—I hope you are, too!
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The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!
But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year’s viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.
Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I’ve ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 42 years ago).
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What is very interesting is that Ruth is a gentile - a Moabite. So the Davidic line is linked to the gentiles.
Indeed. Of further interest is that the Moabites themselves were generated by Lot’s daughter’s union with Lot, Abraham’s nephew. And Rahab the former Jericho harlot was Boaz’s mother. David had quite a family tree.
The “Grafting In” has been going on a LONG time. :-)
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Dan
Thank you for posting!
Yesterday there was a discussion of a Jewish Leverite marriage, where the brother of a married deceased man whose wife had not borne children had an obligation to take his brother’s wife to provide her a child to care for her and continue the name of the deceased. (And of course, to house her and provide for her care.)
The nearest relative to Ruth’s brother would have bought Naomi’s property, but declined to marry Ruth. (Presumably he was engaged to another woman and this would disrupt his plans to marry that women and her property!)
In acting, it appears that Boaz anticipated his response. Rather than discussing this with him the nearer relative privately beforehand, giving him a chance to think about it, he gathered the elders as witnesses and forced him to declare his intent regarding Ruth publicly (He sandbagged him...the guardian/redeemer wanted the land, but not the foreign woman!)
The question of the Sandal....
Yes, the passing of the sandal is an indication that the “Nearer relative/gaurdian” declined to take the responsibility for his deceased relative’s wife. (I do not think that Boaz Spit in the face as indicated in Leviticus, since his objective was to take Ruth as his wife and he was not really angry with him for declining the responibility.)
In addition, passing a sandal is a vestige of pre-Abrahamic form of land transfer from Haran. Land technically belonged to the local Temple (Which probably did not worship YWH., or worshiped him as one of multiple gods.) You bought he sandal and the previous owner passed it to the new owner of the field as a way of avoiding the technicality of the actual ownership of the temple. (Something like that...its been 40 years since my Old Testament class!)
Note that when Abraham was bargaining with Ephron the Hittite, he openly paid the 400 shekels for the cave of Machpelah and was not passing sandals back and forth. (What is that between you and me? So bury your dead?) The Hittites were also semitic but were from Anatolia and did not follow the same customs as in in Haran. In this instance, although he was “A foreigner and stranger amoung them” Abraham wanted clear title to the property.
Many thanks, Pete, for taking the time and effort to fill me in! Between you and Forgiven_Sinner, it’s clear to me now. A strange custom, but I expect ours would puzzle them. As to Boaz: I figured he was putting the other fellow on the spot, as you detailed.
I did not know the sandal custom was pre-Abrahamic. It makes sense that God would take such a custom and apply it to Leverite marriage to ensure land ownership.
Just listened to the whole Story of Ruth and perused the pics. I’m caught up now!
We certainly did not want to leave you in our dust—you’re much too important. Hope you appreciated the bread crumbs....
(Smile)
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