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The book of Ruth has been interpreted as a short story or novella which has a political purpose: to protest the exclusionary policies of Ezra-Nehemiah(prohibition of mixed marriage), or to legitimate David's monarchy and to explain his providential ancestry. In the OT studies of Ruth, the diachronic method has been used, and the issue of 'human being' is always located in the center of these arguments. But Ruth has been read primarily not as a political book but as a canon of Judaism and Christianity.
For this reason, this paper explores the descriptions of God in the final text of Ruth and the religious and theological meaning of these texts in the context of ancient West Asian Religion.
This study uses a synchronic method(Canonical, Literary, Religious) to expound the book of Ruth. It attempts to propose a new understanding for the purpose of the writing of Ruth. The religions of the Moabites and the Canaanites were closely connected with fertility cults, and they understood that their gods(Baal-Anat, Chemosh-Ishtar Chemosh) gave them food and life. The book of Ruth, however, insists that YHWH gives food and life to the Israelites. It can be found in the verses of 1:6 and 4:13 which compose 'inclusio' in this book and some texts of this book directly and indirectly show YHWH as a God who gives food, life, goodness and blessing to His people(1:8, 2:4, 2:20).
The fertility cults of Moab and Canaan continually influenced the Israelites from the beginning of their settlement in Canaan to the end of the kingdom of Israel. In this specific historical environment, Ruth proves that the core concepts(food, life) of paganism belong to God and describes Ruth and Naomi as positive images of faithful women in the OT.
These elements of this book clearly delivered a religious message. Through this study, it can be proved that this book is written for the purpose of apologetics.

목차

1. 들어가는말
 2. 연구방법
 3. 룻기의 기록 목적에 관한 연구사
  1) 포로기 이후 시대의 이방인 통혼 금지 정책에 대한 저항
  2) 왕정시대 다윗왕조의 정통성 변론
  3) 탈-역사적인 의미의 다양성 제공
 4. 룻기의 문학적 구조와 수사학적 표현들에 나타난 하나님 이해
  1) 문학적 구조와 신학적 의미 해석
  2) 수사학적 표현들과 신학적 의미 해석
 5. 고대 서아시아 종교의 배경 속에서 본 룻기의 본문이해
  1) 모압의종교와룻기
  2) 가나안종교와룻기
 7. 나가는말
 8. 참고문헌
 Abstract

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• 김진명 [ Jin-Myung Kim | 장신대 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  구약논단 [The Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1229-0521

• 수록기간

  1995~2019

• 십진분류

  KDC 233 DDC 220