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Part II — Joshua to Revelation (1898)
The Book of Ruth
Stanton reads the one Bible book named for a woman with evident affection — the devotion of Ruth to Naomi, the harvest-field courtship of Boaz — while noting that even this gentle idyll turns on land, levirate law, and a widow's need to secure a male protector.
Ruth and Naomi'Whither thou goest, I will go'The levirate marriage and BoazWomen's loyalty as the book's engine