The ultimate authority on people of the Bible is the Bible itself. I have attempted to remain true to the scriptural message in all points, adding only what is necessary to aid in our understanding of that message.Īt the end of each novella, we have included a brief study section. Building on that foundation, I have created action, dialogue, internal motivations, and in some cases, additional characters that I feel are consistent with the biblical record. The outline of the story is provided by the Bible, and I have started with the facts provided for us there. Although some of their actions may seem disagreeable to us in our century, we need to consider these women in the context of their own times. Their stories, as I have told them, are based on biblical accounts. These are historical women who actually lived. The lessons we can learn from them are as applicable today as when they lived thousands of years ago.īathsheba is a woman who received unlimited grace. We live in desperate, troubled times when millions seek answers. These women were not perfect, and yet God in His infinite mercy used them in His perfect plan to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world. They lived daring lives, and sometimes they made mistakes-big mistakes.
These were Eastern women who lived in ancient times, and yet their stories apply to our lives and the difficult issues we face in our world today. This is the third of five novellas on the women in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Because women of her their time were held by strict laws, it makes me more remarkable to me that someone who clearly was foreign had the ability to be accepted by God's people, as an ancestor to Jesus! Reading this story was a delightful way to spend my Sunday, while giving my own faith a boost. As has been the case with the other stories of women of the Bible whom Francine writes about, Ruth was not an Israelite by birth, but a woman who came into the faith because of the support and love she received from someone who was - and in this case was her mother-in-law. Overall, I'd say the novella was still worth reading, and Francine Rivers managed to capture the emotions of what would have been felt by the grieving widows who together had to learn how to trust the God they served and what He had in store for them.
Whenever the women or men would have snippets of conversations between them about Naomi or Ruth, it seemed to break up the flow of the story. The only thing I would have changed were the brief commentaries by the rest of the onlookers who were observing their lives. Not only did it have a backstory on the lives of Naomi and Ruth, it added more depth to their characters than I would have thought about, making it a believable account. Having watched a few movie portrayals of Ruth, the dutiful daughter-in-law to Naomi, I was eager to see what the novella would include.
This story of Ruth as told by Francine Rivers is yet another good read I enjoyed.
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