The Book of Ruth

Hebrew scripture · c. 500 BCE · Scripture · Judeo-Christian · Ancient

A Judean widow in Moab tells her two foreign daughters-in-law to go back to their own families, and one of them will not: whither thou goest, I will go. Ruth follows Naomi home to Bethlehem, gleans behind the harvesters in a field belonging to a kinsman, and is noticed there. Kindness as quiet providence.

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Lineage

• alludes to ↑ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• ↓ Housekeeping
  Marilynne Robinson · 1980 CE · Novel — alludes to this
• ↓ The Gospels
  Christian scripture · c. 70 CE · Scripture — alludes to this
• ↓ Ode to a Nightingale
  John Keats · 1819 CE · Poem — alludes to this
• ↓ The Legend of the Ages
  Victor Hugo · 1859 CE · Poem — alludes to this

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