Boaz is a pillar of strength. Ruth 2:1 informs us that he is a heroic man of wealth. The remainder of Ruth 2 shows that he is a man who practiced the generosity of Biblical economics, not the economics of Keynes, Marx or Adam Smith.
Biblical economics never allowed anyone to "own" anything, people were simply to be stewards who held God's property in trust for him, and they were only to use it according to the terms of God's covenant.
Boaz is descended from Rahab, a prostitute who plied her trade in Jericho, a person who would be called an Arab today.
Biblical Judaism was not about race but repentance and faith in the God of Abraham, the God who welcomes all to partake of the richness of his covenant with Abraham.
Rahab left her people and her gods and chose Israel's God to be her God, so did Ruth, and these two women are the direct ancestors of the great King David, as well as of David's greater Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
