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Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth, Hardback Book

Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth Hardback

Part of the Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts series

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Polyamory and Reading the Book of Ruth is based on a simple premise- what if the Book of Ruth isn’t a love story in the vein of modern rom coms, but a different sort of love story?

Many people are conditioned to read romance stories as resolving into happily married, dyadic couplings, most often heterosexual.

But what if that’s not how to read the Book of Ruth?

This book identifies a polyamorous hermeneutic and explores how it might be helpful in interpreting the Book of Ruth.

Drawing on developments in both feminist and queer biblical studies, Deborah Kahn-Harris offers a close textual reading that focuses in on a triadic basis for examining the relationships in the Book of Ruth.

The book closes with a contemporary ‘targumic’ reimagining of the Book of Ruth that defines more clearly this polyamorous reading.

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