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Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth
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2023
Summary
Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth is based on a simple premise- what if the Book of Ruth isn’t a love story in the vein of modern rom coms, but a different sort of love story? Many people are conditioned to read romance stories as resolving into happily married, dyadic couplings, most often heterosexual. But what if that’s not how to read the Book of Ruth?
This book identifies a polyamorous hermeneutic and explores how it might be helpful in interpreting the Book of Ruth. Drawing on developments in both feminist and queer biblical studies, Deborah Kahn-Harris offers a close textual reading that focuses in on a triadic basis for examining the relationships in the Book of Ruth. The book closes with a contemporary ‘targumic’ reimagining of the Book of Ruth that defines more clearly this polyamorous reading.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-3209-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-3210-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
146
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 1: The Setting No access Pages 21 - 26
Chapter 2: Ruth 1: The Arrangement and Rearrangement of Families No access Pages 27 - 44
Chapter 3: Who Is Naomi? No access Pages 45 - 52
Chapter 4: Who Is Ruth? No access Pages 53 - 56
Chapter 5: Ruth 2: Building Relationships No access Pages 57 - 64
Chapter 6: חסד Hesed: An Excursus No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter 7: Who Is Boaz? No access Pages 77 - 82
Chapter 8: Ruth 3: What Is Romance Really? No access Pages 83 - 96
Chapter 9: Ruth 4: Dyadic or Triadic: What Does Happily Ever After Actually Look Like? No access Pages 97 - 114
Chapter 10: The Book of Ruth: A Targum with Annotations (2024): Another Way of Telling the Story No access Pages 115 - 130
