Reading Ruth Canonically as the Central Panel in a Literary Triptych
Ruth - Rhiannon Graybill
William Krisel [+]
Institut Catholique de Paris
William Krisel is a lecturer at Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris). His recent publications include Judges 19–21 and the “Othering” of Benjamin: A Golah Polemic against the Autochthonous In- habitants of the Land? Leiden: Brill, 2022; "Methodological Problems in Intertextual Analyses of Old Testament Texts: Genesis 19 and Judges 19 as a Case Study,” SJOT 36:2 (2022); “Was the Levite’s Concubine Unfaithful or Angry? A Proposed Solution to the Text Critical Problem in Judges 19:2,” OTE 33, 2 (2020).
Description
The thrust of this chapter is to situate what appears to be an isolated “stand-alone” novella in the broader narrative context of Judges 19–21 and 1 Samuel 1–7.