The full title in Hebrew is named after a young woman of Moab, the great-grandmother of David and, according to the Christian tradition, an ancestress of Jesus :, Megillat Ruth, or " the scroll of Ruth ", which places the book as one of the Five Megillot.

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

The case in the book of Ruth is not the simplest type of Levirate marriage ( Boaz is not Mahlon's brother ); therefore, some scholars refer to Boaz ’ s duty as " Levirate-like " or as a " kinsman-marriage.

Even though the author of the book states that Ruth " just happens " to find Boaz's field ( Ruth 2: 3 ), the reader may be led to accede to the notion that in Bible terms there is no mere chance, but that chance and God's providence amount to the same thing.

* Baylis, Charles P. " Naomi in the book of Ruth in Light of the Mosaic Covenant ".

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the U. S ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";

In 1928 a book titled The Lesbians of Berlin written by Ruth Margarite Röllig further popularized the German capital as a center of lesbian activity.

Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers ( Square One Publishers ) says that around the turn of the century ( from 1800 to 1900 A. D .) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras ' work with Biblical reference.

At age seven Ruth began to write short verses and read any book she could get her hands on.

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the US ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";

The book is dedicated to King's mother: " For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King.

* Interview with Ruth Harris about her book Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, And the Scandal of the Century ( 2010 ).

In 1965, the UK government commissioned an investigation — led by Professor Roger Brambell — into the welfare of intensively farmed animals, partly in response to concerns raised in Ruth Harrison's 1964 book, Animal Machines.

My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play ( and unproduced radio series ), two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960 – 1961 season.

Although it had long been noted that the selling of Ruth had been the beginning of a down period in the Red Sox ' fortunes, the curse was publicized by Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe in his 1990 book, The Curse of the Bambino, and became a key part of the Red Sox lore in the media thereafter.

Also see the book of Ruth for an instance of renouncing rights to redeem the brother's land by removing one's shoe.

See also the book of Ruth ( Found in the Ketubim ) for a similar example of property rights being abjucated by shoe removal.

Otherwise, the melody for the book of Ruth is considered the " default " melody for books of the Ketuvim not otherwise provided for.

The " prose " passages at the beginning and end of the book of Job, as read on Tisha B ' Av, may be read either to the tune of Ruth or to one resembling that for the Song of Songs.

Among the personalities the book talks about in depth are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Louis, Primo Carnera, Tony Canzoneri, Sugar Ray Robinson, Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Stillman, Jacob Ruppert and more.

The 1951 non-fiction book The River Dart by Ruth Manning-Sanders centres on the river and its history.

Finally the structure portrays the trial faced by the Anointed One as the focal point of the book ( D ).

In his 2000 book, The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, portrays Whitacre as a complex figure: while working for the FBI as one of the best and most effective undercover cooperating witnesses the U. S. government ever had, Whitacre was simultaneously committing a US $ 9 million white-collar crime.

The book portrays a society in which suffrage is earned by demonstrated willingness to place society's interests before one's own, at least for a short time and often under onerous circumstances, in government service ; in the case of the protagonist, this was military service.

In Hinduism, the holy book Rigveda, the oldest extant Indo-Aryan text, numerous references are made to rebirths, although it portrays reincarnation as " redeaths " ( punarmrtyu ).

The book portrays their descent into savagery ; left to themselves in a paradisiacal country, far from modern civilisation, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state.

The book portrays the Gothic era as one of the extremes of architecture, passion, and religion.

Plato's Parmenides portrays Zeno as claiming to have written a book defending the monism of Parmenides by demonstrating the absurd consequence of assuming that there is plurality.

Will next starred in Red, an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name, in which he portrays Frank Moses.

The Swordmaster in Alain Ayrole's and Jean-Luc Masbou's French comic book De cape et de crocs portrays a colorful gentleman living on the Moon, at ease either with a sword or with a sonnet, and using both to silence those foolish enough to mock his prominent nose.

Kooman's book portrays Fanny Blankers-Koen in a different light, a woman who found it difficult to show affection and most of all always wanted to win.

The book has scholarly value for the colonialist attitudes Haggard expresses, and for the way he portrays the relationships among the white and African characters.

The earliest mention of Hermaphroditus in Greek literature is by the philosopher Theophrastus ( 3rd century BC ), in his book The Characters, XVI The Superstitious Man, in which he portrays various types of eccentric people.

* The 1984 book Bridge of Birds ( by Barry Hughart ) portrays Qin Shi Huang as a power-hungry megalomaniac who achieved immortality by having his heart removed by an " Old Man of the mountain ".

The graphic novel Welcome Back, Mr. Moto by Rafael Nieves and Tim Hamilton published by Moonstone Books in 2008 ( originally published in 2003 as a 3-issue comic book miniseries ) portrays Mr. Moto as an American of Japanese descent helping Japanese-American citizens after World War II.

The film, based on Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes ?, portrays Crane as a happily married, church-going family man and popular Los Angeles disc jockey who suddenly becomes a Hollywood celebrity, and subsequently declines into sex addiction.

In his book, Delmedigo portrays himself as defender of Maimonidean Judaism, and — like many Maimonideans — he emphasized the rationality of Jewish tradition.

Ketu is our karmic account book, whose balance sheet portrays the entire record of our thoughts, attitudes, and behavior of the past.

The first book is a plea for army reform ; it vividly portrays the military decadence of the Late Roman Empire.

The newest book, World and Town, portrays a fragile America, its small towns challenged by globalization, development, fundamentalism, and immigration, as well as the ripples sent out by 9 / 11.

* Four Steps to Death, a book written by John Wilson, portrays a Soviet sniper, Yelena Pavlova, as a main character in the Battle of Stalingrad

The 1973 film The Exorcist, based on the book of the same name, portrays a fictional case of demonic possession loosely inspired by the case of Robbie Mannheim.

Although the film adaptation of the book does not portray George as bisexual or incestuous, it does portray him and Anne contemplating incest, which in the 16th century would have amounted to treason by intent, and it also portrays him as a somewhat weak and ineffectual young man who dies on the scaffold as a coward.

Lisa Birnbach's 1980 book Official Preppy Handbook, which was written to poke fun at the rich lives of privileged East Coast college students but ended up glamorizing the culture, portrays the preppy social group as well-educated, well-connected, and although exclusive, courteous to other social groups without fostering serious relationships with them.

The book portrays Nixon in a very negative light, and is considered ( by whom?