Ruth: King David’s Moabite Great-Grandmother

Why does Israel’s greatest king and future messiah have a foreign ancestress? Does the Book of Ruth have anything to do with the question of foreign wives in the period of Ezra and Nehemiah, or is the text really from the time of the Judges? How does the literary structure of the Book of Ruth authenticate its genealogy at the end? What is its theme and why did it make the canon? This presentation explores and sheds light on these questions.