Thank you to all those who submitted caption entries for our January/ February 2020 cartoon , based on Ruth 4:7-8. We are pleased to congratulate Wade Livingston of Thornton, Colorado, who wrote the winning caption, and our runners-up:
RUNNERS UP
“But wait, there’s more! Act now and I’ll throw in the mother-in-law suite at no extra charge!”
—Deborah S. Peters, Naperville, Illinois
“And the treads are guaranteed for 12 months or 500,000 steps, as described in the warranty.”
—Timothy Kenyon, Rockford, Illinois
HONORABLE MENTIONS
“This transaction is RUTHless.”
—Mark Verhagen, Harrison, Ohio
“Penny loafer for your thoughts.”
—Bridgette M’Guinness, Saratoga, California
Write a caption for the cartoon at right (see Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities 15.380 (15.11.1): “And now Herod, in the eighteenth year of his reign, and after the acts already mentioned, undertook a very great work, that is, to build of himself the temple of God, and make it larger in compass, and to raise it to a most magnificent altitude, as esteeming it to be the most glorious of all his actions, as it really was, to bring it to perfection, and that this would be sufficient for an everlasting memorial of him.”) and send it to us via our website at biblicalarchaeology.org/captioncontest or mail to:
BAR Cartoon Caption Contest Biblical Archaeology Society 4710 41st Street, NW Washington, DC 20016
Be sure to include your name and address. The deadline for entries is July 31, 2020. The author of the winning caption will receive a BAS All-Access membership and three gift subscriptions to give BAR to friends. Runners-up will receive an All-Access membership and two gift subscriptions for friends.
“I think she is my sole-mate”
—Wade Livingston, Thornton, Colorado
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