The facts are not told as though they were directly of concern to the history of Israel or bore witness to the action of God in the working out of his people’s destiny. The touching idyll of Ruth resembles rather an edifying tale, like the stories of Tobit and Jonah. Ruth is a woman...
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Ruth Magnusson Davis: The New Matthew Bible is a lightly modernized version of a little-known Reformation Bible, called the Matthew Bible, which was first published in 1537. Few people realize that the Matthew Bible is the real primary version of our English Bible. All the versions that foll...
In Doremus, state taxpayers challenged a law authorizing public school teachers to read aloud from the Bible. The Supreme Court held that they lacked standing because they could not show how mandatory Bible-reading was "supported by any separate tax or paid for from any particular appropriation or...
As far as Mormonism was connected with its reputed founder, Joseph, always called "Joe Smith," it had its originin the brain and heart of an ignorant, deceitful mother.Joe Smith's mother moved in the lowest walks of life, but she had a kind of mental power, which her son shared. W...
Book of Ruth, Old Testament book belonging to the third section of the biblical canon, known as the Ketuvim, or Writings. In the Hebrew Bible, Ruth stands with the Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther; together they make up the Megillo