...More than any other biblical story or cycle of tales, the book of Ruth belongs to the dramatic genre. Structured as a series of short, eventful scenes animated by spirited, dynamic dialogue, it can be easily adapted for the stage. Scholarly consensus regarding the literary genre of the book of Ruth...

...The book of Ruth becomes a liberation text for women—not exactly a song of Miriam about the destruction of Pharaoh and his horsemen, not a cry to arms such as was sung by Deborah or Judith, but a kinder, gentler rally cry to “make a life for ourselves”, “fear nothing and risk anything”, “see...

... takes up Derrida's Memoires for Paul de Man and The Post Card, Lillian Hellman's famed friendship with a woman named Julia, and adaptations of the biblical “The Book of Ruth”. Above all, it is a treatise on the love of theory in the name of poetry, a passionate book...

...Two Yiddish poets wrote their own versions of the conversations between the characters in the book of Ruth. The first, Roza Yakubovitsh, is a now forgotten figure who published one slim collection of poems, Mayne gezangen, in Warsaw in 1924. The second, Itzik Manger, is one...