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The Book of Ruth as Evidence for Israelite Legal Practice

The Book of Ruth as Evidence for Israelite Legal Practice THE BOOK OF RUTH AS EVIDENCE FOR ISRAELITE LEGAL PRACTICE BY D. R. G. BEATTIE Belfast The short story of Ruth involves three legal processes-inheritance, redemption and the re-marriage of a childless widow ')-upon all of which the legal sections of the Pentateuch give less information than might be desired and, consequently, considerable discussion has ensued as to the relationship between the procedures reflected in Ruth and the laws as codified in the Torah. In this essay it is proposed to summarize some of the discussions which have taken place, both in the Rabbinic scholarship of the middle ages and in the critical scholarship of the more recent past, and to express some views of the present writer on the subject. However, before proceeding to a detailed examination of these matters, a question of a more general nature must also be considered, namely the question of whether it is valid to derive any conclusions as to legal procedure from a text of the nature of Ruth, which is essentially a short story and by no means a treatise on jurisprudence. In the Rabbinic texts which will be examined below we must not, of course, expect this question to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

The Book of Ruth as Evidence for Israelite Legal Practice

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 24 (3): 251 – Jan 1, 1974

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Brill
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© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-4935
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1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853374X00198
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THE BOOK OF RUTH AS EVIDENCE FOR ISRAELITE LEGAL PRACTICE BY D. R. G. BEATTIE Belfast The short story of Ruth involves three legal processes-inheritance, redemption and the re-marriage of a childless widow ')-upon all of which the legal sections of the Pentateuch give less information than might be desired and, consequently, considerable discussion has ensued as to the relationship between the procedures reflected in Ruth and the laws as codified in the Torah. In this essay it is proposed to summarize some of the discussions which have taken place, both in the Rabbinic scholarship of the middle ages and in the critical scholarship of the more recent past, and to express some views of the present writer on the subject. However, before proceeding to a detailed examination of these matters, a question of a more general nature must also be considered, namely the question of whether it is valid to derive any conclusions as to legal procedure from a text of the nature of Ruth, which is essentially a short story and by no means a treatise on jurisprudence. In the Rabbinic texts which will be examined below we must not, of course, expect this question to

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Published: Jan 1, 1974

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