Comments on: Boaz Centrally Marginalized

By: One or Two Articles on Boaz? – Targuman

One or Two Articles on Boaz? – Targuman — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:58:33 +0000

[...] articles on the character of Boaz and subsequently presented two separate papers. The first was on the figure of Boaz strictly within the biblical book of Ruth. The other was on how the Targumist had transformed the [...]

By: Are Men Marginalized in Ruth? – Targuman

Are Men Marginalized in Ruth? – Targuman — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:58:26 +0000

[...] a single article for submission to a journal to be named later. In read reading my paper “Boaz Centrally Marginalized” it occurred to me that men as a whole are very deliberately moved to the edges of the book [...]

By: Ruth Word Cloud – Targuman

Ruth Word Cloud – Targuman — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:15:24 +0000

[...] of meetings. While sorting through my material I came across this word cloud I had created of the paper I presented regarding Boaz’ role in the Book of Ruth. I thought it was kind of cool. [...]

By: Chris Brady

Chris Brady — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:05:02 +0000

TgRuth 2.11- Boaz replied thus: “It has been told to me on the authority of the sages, that when the Lord decreed [against intermarriage with Moab], He did not decree against the women, but against the men. Through prophecy I have been informed that kings and prophets are destined to descend from you, because of the kindness which you have shown your mother-in-law, in that you supported her after your husband died, and you left your gods and your people, your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have gone to become a proselyte and to dwell in the midst of a people with whom you were unacquainted before.

Levey’s translation. The relevant bit: ‏בנבואה דעתידין למיפק מניך מלכין

By: Aramaic Scholar

Aramaic Scholar — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:59:53 +0000

Thanks for your comments on Targum Ruth. It is particularly interesting when the Aramaic Targumim have a slightly different renderings from the Hebrew Tanakh. Where in Targum Ruth does it say that Boaz is a scholar of the Torah and a prophet? Many thanks!

By: Chris Brady

Chris Brady — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:53:05 +0000

Gary was in attendance and mentioned that he is going to write up on the use of archaisms in the speech of both Naomi and Boaz. (I pointed out that Robert Holmstedt mentioned in his comment on my previous blog post that he has already published something on this very point.)

By: Rick Wright

Rick Wright — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:33:43 +0000

Rendsburg wrote an article years ago for Eblaitica 1:33-43 on Hebrew wm- and Elbaite u2-ma- constructions. This is relevant for understanding properly wm’t rwt in Ruth 4:5. If Rendsburg is correct we have yet another example of how the narrator marginalizes Boaz with every odd expression that he utters. Getz may be on to something here! Worth a follow up article perhaps.

By: robert r. cargill

robert r. cargill — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:26:29 +0000

i remember having to translate targum of ruth for my doctoral exams. sweet memories.
very excellent job in this paper!!

By: Bob MacDonald

Bob MacDonald — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:42:37 +0000

It’s very timely for me that you would write this now. I have been living with the text of Ruth for more than a year and I am just finishing my bootstrap exercise of learning the grammar of Hebrew by reading Ruth letter by letter to see how each letter sounds in the story. I was, months ago, particularly struck by ‘tet’, a letter which occurs in the word gleaning and 25% of the uses of this word occur in chapter 2 of Ruth.

So I am just hoping to move on to the story again. Thanks for your careful negotiation of the path. I will look forward to more.