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Years before, he had married sixteen-year old Wendy there and now has a fifteen-year-old daughter Veronica, in addition to the eighteen-year-old Sara in his other home in Kingsmarkham. The two wives only find out about each other after Williams' body is discovered in a shallow grave. He has died from multiple stab wounds.
Boaz, being a close relative of Naomi's husband's family, is therefore obliged by the levirate law to marry Ruth, Mahlon's widow, to carry on his family's inheritance. Naomi sends Ruth to the threshing floor at night where Boaz sleeps, directing Ruth to "uncover his feet and lie down" and await his instructions" ( 3:4 ).
The story of Ruth as told in the Book of Ruth was likely written in Hebrew during the Persian period (550–330 BCE). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Scholars generally consider the book to be a work of historical fiction , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while evangelical scholars hold that it is a historical narrative written in the form of a short story.
However, Boaz "of Ruth" was from Judah, [7] whereas the two chieftains immediately before Ibzan were from Zebulun. [21] A legend is given that he lost all his sixty children during his lifetime because he did not invite Manoah, Samson's father, to any of the marriage festivities at his house. [19]
Meanwhile, Boaz visits Naomi and Ruth to convince them to accept his help. After Boaz assists Ruth against a mob of hostile women at a well, Ruth becomes aware of his noble nature. Eventually, Boaz and Ruth fall in love, but Tob claims his right under the laws of God to marry Mahlon’s widow as closest kinsman.
Ruth admitted to being behind the hoax to investigators, including stabbing herself in the parking lot. Police advised that Ruth see a doctor and was placed under a 24-hour-a-day psychiatric watch ...
She married her high school boyfriend, Elliot Handler, and moved with him to Los Angeles in 1938. The Handlers had two children: daughter Barbara, born in 1941, and son Kenneth, born in 1944.
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