A trio of eminent Old Testament scholars--Francis Brown- R. Driver- and Charles Briggs--spent over twenty years researching- writing- and preparing "The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon." Since it first appeared in the early part of the twentieth century- BDB has been considered the finest and most comprehensive Hebrew lexicon available to the English-speaking student. Based upon …
This thorough commentary mines recent research to give the Book of Ruth's literary- grammatical- and theological dimensions a rigorous treatment. Hubbard pays particular attention to the skillful literary devices and unique theological perspective of Ruth- using them to propose a new date and purpose for the book. By affirming the story's outcome as a divine providence- Hubbard says- the writer…