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  2. Book of Ruth - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת רוּת, Megillath Ruth, "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings , of the Hebrew Bible. In most Christian canons it is treated as one of the historical books and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel .

  3. Ruth (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    The story of Ruth as told in the Book of Ruth was likely written in Hebrew during the Persian period (550–330 BCE). [3] [4] Scholars generally consider the book to be a work of historical fiction, [5] [6] while evangelical scholars hold that it is a historical narrative written in the form of a short story. [7]

  4. Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1]

  5. Book of Judith - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her ...

  6. List of books of the King James Version - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Joshua Judges: Judices: Judges: The Book of Judges Ruth: Ruth: Ruth: The Book of Ruth 1 Samuel: 1 Samuelis also known as 1 Regum: 1 Kings: The First Book of Samuel, otherwise called the First Book of the Kings 2 Samuel: 2 Samuelis also known as 2 Regum: 2 Kings: The Second Book of Samuel, otherwise called the Second Book of the ...

  7. Five Megillot - Wikipedia

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    The Five Scrolls are the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther. These five relatively short biblical books are grouped together in Jewish tradition. [2] The five megillot in multilingual micrography (Latin and Hebrew) by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, 1748

  8. Historical books - Wikipedia

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    The historical books are a division of Christian Bibles, grouping 12 (or in some denominations more) books of the Old Testament [1] [page needed] that follow the Pentateuch, beginning with the Book of Joshua. [2]

  9. The Story of Ruth - Wikipedia

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    Frank G. Slaughter wrote a screenplay based on his 1954 novel The Song of Ruth: A Love Story From the Old Testament. [3] Norman Corwin wrote an entirely new screenplay after summer 1958. [3] Corwin submitted his final draft of the script on September 1, 1959. [3] Production began in late November 1959 and ended in mid-February 1960. [4]