num_pages: 287
description: Ruth was a high-born Moabite the widow of an Israelite slain by treachery. So great was her beauty that men stopped in battle to look at her. Boaz was the dynamic general of the Israelite army. Theirs was a love so great that it overcame bitter hatred war and exile.In a country of strangers accused of being a spy and pursued by the lust of her enemies Ruth became through devotion and courage the heroine of the Bible's most memorable love story.
language: None
title: The Song of Ruth
publisher: Doubleday