The Purpose of the Book of Ruth

• Authors: Bartosz Adamczewski

Abstracts

PL

Wielu badaczy uważa, że Księga Rut, z jej opowiadaniem dotyczącym małżeństw mieszanych Judejczyków z kobietami moabickimi, świadomie sprzeciwia się ekskluzywistycznej retoryce Ksiąg Ezdrasza–Nehemiasza. Jednakże szczegółowa analiza narracyjnej retoryki Księgi Rut, szczególności porównanej z supersesywną (zastępującą) retoryką mniej więcej współczesnych jej Ksiąg Samuela–Królewskich, ujawnia, że głównym celem Księgi Rut było zdelegitymizowanie roszczeń szczepu Efraima do panowania w Izraelu, a na tym tle promocja szczepu Judy z jego Dawidową dynastią. Z tego powodu Księga Rut najprawdopodobniej służyła jako retoryczno-ideologiczny model dla dużo bardziej złożonej, podobnie świadomie judejskiej narracji Ksiąg Samuela-Królewskich.

EN

Numerous scholars argue that the book of Ruth, with its story concerning mixed marriages of Judahites with Moabite women, consciously opposes the exclusivist rhetoric of the books of Ezra–Nehemiah. However, a detailed analysis of the narrative rhetoric of the book of Ruth, especially compared to the supersessive rhetoric of the roughly contemporary books of Samuel–Kings, reveals that the main purpose of the book of Ruth was to delegitimize the claims of the tribe of Ephraim to domination in Israel, and against this background to promote the tribe of Judah with its Davidic dynasty. Therefore, the book of Ruth most probably served as a rhetorical-ideological model for the much more elaborate, likewise consciously Judean narrative of the books of Samuel–Kings.

Keywords

PL

Księga Rut; Księgi Samuela–Królewskie; Izrael; Samaria; Efraim; Judea

EN

book of Ruth; books of Samuel–Kings; Israel; Samaria; Ephraim; Judea

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Collectanea Theologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-36

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Bartosz Adamczewski

• Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

• https://orcid.org/0000000178470203

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/ct.2023.93.2.01

Biblioteka Nauki

28394738