RuthA wide ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. In this insightful volume, Ilana Pardes invites us to marvel at the ever changing perspectives on Ruths foreignness. She explores the rabbis lauding of Ruth as an exemplary convert, and the Zohars insistence that Ruths Moabite