Joel Baden and Harry Attridge discuss Ruth's faithfulness, Levirate marriage, and what turns out to be the most explicit biblical sex scene in Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17. The text is appointed for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 27, in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary.
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Joel Baden is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Center for Continuing Education at Yale Divinity School. Harry Attridge is Sterling Professor of Divinity at Yale Divinity School.
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