Reading Ruth In Asia (international Voices In Biblical Studies) [Hardcover]

An invitation for conversation with Asian biblical scholars in diaspora

This book contains readings of texts in, and engagements with themes drawn from, the Book of Ruth. The chapters exhibit literary, cultural, intertextual, and postcolonial flavors, thus giving readers a taste of current trends of biblical criticism in Asia. The attention to migration, gender, and minoritized subjects in the Book of Ruth makes this a necessary read for students and researchers on Ruth and on methods of biblical criticism.

Features

• Essays from biblical scholars from different parts of Asia and its neighbors
• Attention to migration, gender, and minoritized subjects in the Book of Ruth