we're reading it for language arts and it asks if the book of ruth teaches an effective lesson agsinst prejudice and why or why not. personally, i didnt find any prejudice in the book at all..but there obviously is some or else the question wouldnt be asked. so what do you think? does it teach an effective lesson against prejudice?
2007-09-11 12:31:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think Boaz represents the kinsman redeemer. Ruth was a servant and a Moabite. So you may want to look at the relationship of him to her as cultures go. I would need to study it again, but I think in that culture the Moabites would have been hated as a people.
2007-09-11 12:43:26 · answer #1 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. The book of Ruth isn't that long and could easily be read in one evening (for those who have the interest). It is the story of a courtship between two people from different back grounds, and due to the customs of the time one must make the decision to do what is right rather that what others think should be done, It really is a wonderful love story of it's time. Touching too.
The lesson(s) against prejudice is in that Ruth wasn't rejected as being a member of Maomi's family just because her husband was dead.
She was accepted as family because of her love, kindness and devotion to Naomi as a daughter would.
Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood. Love knows no prejudice, and doesn't discriminate.
The Moabites where children of Lot's brothers first born daughter.
2007-09-11 20:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by Barney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ummmm. I think whether it is effective or not depends on the reader. I believe that way the book of Ruth challenges prejudice was a bit more obvious to folks more familiar with the distrust between the hebrew folks and the moabites. Today, I don't think we immediately get the underlying distrust. We don't immediately think that the hebrews would have seen the moabites as having questionable lineage ( the perverbial "yo mama" kind of stuff). That means we miss the irony of the matrilinear Israelites having a monarch, well, THE monarch, having a moabitess in his lineage.
Soooo, I think it was effective, especially in Hebrew, but I don't think we always have the frame of reference to understand it.
2007-09-11 19:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by Jackie L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thanks i'm a christen i'll have to look that up!
2007-09-11 20:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by Fred M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋