Every reader will appreciate the tragedy and triumph in Ruth's personal history. Against the backdrop of a sinful generation of God’s people, Ruth’s faithfulness and courage shines like a star in the night. Widowed early in the story, she appears to be faced with a difficult future. And yet she refuses to leave her mother-in-law Naomi. Ruth travels with her to a foreign land and a foreign people. A worthy man, and Naomi’s relative, Boaz, is there unaware, as yet, of the fate of these two w...