Ruth was a widow from Moab who would not leave her mother-in-law, and she became the great-grandmother of King David. She went with Naomi to Bethlehem, gleaned in the field of Naomi’s kinsman Boaz and married him; their son Obed was David’s grandfather. Her story is the Book of Ruth, four chapters set “in the days when the judges ruled”. Christians know her as one of the few women named in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus, and Jews read her book…

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