What Most People Don't Know About the Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth is a complex piece of literature, for both Jews and Christians. Most Christians take the book as literal history--as the story of the great grandmother of King David.
However, the Jewish priests in exile in Babylon after the down fall of Israel and Judea, transformed the story into propaganda that changed women's status within their communities, firmly reducing women's status to second class behind men, all by seeming to hold up Ruth's behavior, especially her conversion to
