There are only two gentiles who have a book of the Hebrew Bible named after them. Have any idea who they might be? One is Job. And the other one is…you you guessed it: RUTH! That’s right. Ruth was NOT a Hebrew. She was a gentile of Moabite stock. You do remember who Moab was, […]

The Rabbis have always divided the TANAKH or the Hebrew Bible into the following 3 parts: TORAH (the Law) NEVI’IM (the Prophets) KETUVIM (the Writings) Later on, they selected and grouped the following 5 books together for worship purposes in the Synagogue. The Song of Solomon Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther This set of 5 books […]

Today I wanna show you a quick trick you can use to determine whether your Bible was translated from the original Hebrew texts (the Tanach) OR the Greek or Latin Bibles (the Septuagint). So all you gotta do is look at where the Book of Ruth is located in your Bibles. If Ruth is located […]

Let’s continue on with our discussion about how language helps us determine when a given Biblical book was written. Today I’m gonna shift our focus to the Biblical language itself: Hebrew. The first question that comes to mind is… Is Biblical Hebrew quite different than the modern Hebrew spoken in the land today? The answer […]

“Back in the days when the judges were judging, at a time when there was a famine in the land, a certain man from Beit-Lechem went to live in the territory of Mo’av — he, his wife and his two sons.”-Ruth 1:1 Yesterday we talked about the when the events of Ruth took place. Today […]