Summary: <p>What if someone wrote a book that imposed patriarchal authority at the expense of patriarchs, redeemed inheritance at the expense of wealth, upheld a patronymic without blessing the name, linked patrimony and childbirth to each other and to God’s teaching while emphasizing the commandment to care for the widow, the orphan and the foreigner, rubbed in the fact that God blesses couples, households and communities that by all rights should not be blessed, and finally, presented a vision of some future kingdom that will include the very people that everyone is trying to avoid. You don’t have to ask "what if?" We have the book in hand and will cover it’s final chapter today. Richard and Fr. Marc discuss Ruth 4. (Episode 92; Subscribe: http://feedpress.me/the-bible-as-literature)</p>
