Unceasing Kindness

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	Serial preface	ix
	Author's preface	xi
	Abbreviations	xiii
1	Introduction	1
2	Reading Ruth in the early restoration period	5
	Inclusion or exclusion	7
	The law and the practice of hesed	10
	God's sovereignty and human initiative	13
	The temple and prayer	14
	The kingdom of God and the Davidic kings	15
	Conclusion	18
3	Ruth and the house of David	19
	Royal promise	20
	The differing canonical positions of the book of Ruth	22
	Ruth between Judges and Samuel	24
	The David connection	25
	The genealogy leading to David	26
	The hidden polemic of the book of Judges	29
	Rereading the book of Ruth	30
	Divine providence	31
	Kindness, human and divine	32
	Conclusion	34
4	Ruth as a wise woman	37
	The book of Ruth in the Writings	39
	Similarities and differences	42
	reading Ruth alongside Proverbs 31	43
	In praise of Ruth	45
	Reading the book of Ruth within a wisdom frame	46
	Women as models of good behaviour in the New Testament	51
	Conclusion	52
5	Ruth and the Psalter	53
	The earliest (and best) position for the book of Ruth?	55
	Dividing up the book of Ruth	58

	God as a refuge	60
	God's wing	61
	Divine kindness	62
	The movement from lament to praise	64
	Ruth and the historical psalms	67
	Conclusion	69
6	Famine in Ruth	71
	Patriarchal responses to famine	71
	Famine and God's purposes in the rest of the Old Testament	74
	Famine in the book of Ruth	77
	Hunger in the book of Ruth	80
	Further biblical-theological trajectories of famine	82
	Conclusion	86
7	God's hiddenness and human agency	89
	The hiddenness of God and human agency in the book of Judges	90
	The hiddenness of God and human agency in Esther	97
	The hiddenness of God and human agency in Ruth	102
	The hiddenness of God and human agency in the Old Testament	109
	The hiddenness of God and human agency in the New Testament	114
	Conclusion	116
8	redemption in Ruth	117
	Redeemers in Ruth	117
	The contribution of Ruth to redemption	119
	Is Boaz a type of Christ	136
	Conclusion	139
9	Ruth and God's mission	141
	Reading Ruth from a missional perspective	141
	The book of Ruth as witness to God's mission	142
	The book of Ruth as an instrument of God's mission	145
	Reading the book of Ruth as missional communities	151
	Conclusion	156
10	Conclusion	157

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