To secure food Ruth gleans barley stalks in the field of Boaz, a kinsman of Naomi. Boaz is fascinated by Ruth from the moment he sees her, even before he knows who she is, and his interest in her ...

(Ruth 2:9) With these words, Boaz, the wealthy landowner, tells Ruth, the destitute Moabite, a stranger in Bethlehem, that she is not only free to glean in his fields and to gather what the ...

Afterward, Ruth moved to Bethlehem with her mother-in-law Naomi and found work in the barley fields in order to financially support them. The owner of the field happened to be Boaz, a relative of ...

Ruth enters the field to glean the fallen stalks, her right according to law. This is the situation when Boaz returns from town and sees that Ruth “gleaned in a field behind the reapers” (2:3).

In “The Earth Is the LORD’s and the Fulness Thereof,” the British theologian Morris Joseph (1848-1930) writes about the purpose of Shavuot, the holiday during which the book of Ruth is read and that ...

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.

Ruth gleaning in the Fields of Boaz. Work Type. 1 stereoscopic card . Description. A group of people are working in a field. One holds grain that has been gathered and another drinks from a jug. The ...

Ruth went behind the harvesters to glean; “as it turned out,” she followed them to a certain field of wheat; and “just then,” Boaz, the field owner, arrived from Bethlehem (Ruth 2:3–4 ...

Ruth in Boaz's Field, 1828, by Julius Schnorr von Carlsfelt (Wikimedia Commons) Though the media tells us that trust in institutions is at an all-time low and that increasing numbers of people ...

‘Ruth in Boaz’s Field’ by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1828. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) ‘BOAZ AND RUTH’ by Rembrandt, circa 1637-40.