Jan 20, 2025  
2020-2021 Theological School (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) 
    
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BBST 758 - Framing Ruth

3 credits
A study of the book of Ruth, utilizing a number of theoretical, methodological, topical, and culturally informed frames and exploring how such frames focalize, shift, foreground and repress certain meanings and issues in the text, raise questions regarding the text’s production, and suggest new interpretations. Special attention given to the issues of cultural identity as it is constructed in the book of Ruth, as it emerges in the Persian Period, and as it informs contemporary readings.



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