The Book of Ruth sensitively portrays bonding and devotion between two women. [But also don’t miss Book of Judith for a surprising overturning of male/female roles: Judith sneaks into the enemy camps, cuts off the head of Holofernes, the leader of the enemy army, returns and receives a hero’s welcome, and then lives out the remainder of her days with her maidservants, rejecting all male suitors] The final pledge of Ruth to Naomi – more moving in the King James Version than any other [including the Hebrew apparently] – is often used in heterosexual marriage ceremonies. But it is made between two women. This story may or may not be a “lesbian” story: many commentators reject such an interpretation, but others [such as Tom Horner in David Loved Jonathan support a lesbian reading. Quite apart from the lesbian reading of this passage, note that the Bible reveals a major internal debate in the book of Ruth. The point of the story is that Ruth becomes the grandmother of King David, – but Ruth was a Moabite women. The Deuteronomic code, probably adopted about the time of Ezra and Nehemiah condemns marriages between Jews and non-Jews – a reflection of the problems and nationalism of post-exilic Judaism. Interestingly Deuteronomy and the book of Nehemiah do not agree as to the details – but both books would exclude King David from the “congregation of the Lord” – because he was within ten generations of a Moabite, and Nehemiah would exclude Jesus of Nazareth!
The Essay on New Healthy Fruit Smoothie at Burger King
If fast food is unhealthy and is believed to cause obesity, why is there still a fast food restaurant every few blocks? Perhaps because there are a lot of people who are still consuming fast food and backing its business, the fast food industry survives and appears to even increase. The fact that modern life is fast paced as well as the economy hasn’t fully recovered makes people prefer to work ...
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