Many people have different views as to what Ruth and Boaz did on the threshing floor during the night that the two were together. Here is what I wrote in my book “Unusual Bible Interpretations ...

Ruth’s love for her mother-in-law—“Where you go, I will go”—led her to an unexpected, new love with Boaz. Moved by Ruth’s selflessness, Boaz invites Ruth to glean grain from his field.

She drags Ruth out, commands her to bring her the baby and then pretends to nurse him. Disgusting, at her age to bare those old brown breasts. Before they came, I had my eye on Boaz. I thought ...

A parenthesis meant only for readers informs us that Naomi had a kinsman on her husband Elimelech’s side, Boaz, obliged by custom to help her. Unaware of that relationship, Ruth goes to a barley ...

In chapter three, Ruth approaches the sleeping Boaz, uncovers him and embraces him. Why was this recorded, and what is the context? Or more generally, why was the Book of Ruth written at all?

Here are some lessons from the story of Ruth — and Boaz and Obed and Jesse and David and Jesus (and you could look it up in the Book of Ruth). Things are not always what they appear to be.

Director Tammie McKenzie calls "Ruth" a tender love story between Ruth and Boaz. "It is also a story of Naomi living heroically in the face of great loss and a wonderful story of second chances ...