Esther & Ruth - Reformed Expository Commentary (Duguid)

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Duguid, Iain M.

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9780875527833

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P&R Publishing

Pages:

224

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Hardcover

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Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the Books of Esther and Ruth. Some think that Ruth’s attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esther’s bold faithfulness saved her people. But a closer reading shows an embittered Naomi to have abandoned the Promised Land and God’s people, and Esther to have become thoroughly assimilated to the culture and values of Persian society.

In Esther, God works in invisible ways to save his people. In Ruth, God’s grace comes to Naomi unexpectedly, and with it, a depiction of redemption for her people. In both books, a gracious and sovereign God works through flawed individuals—unable even to help themselves—to rescue his people and prepare for the coming of Christ.

As part of the Reformed Expository Commentary series, Esther and Ruth is aimed at both pastors and lay teachers. Each volume in the series provides exposition that gives careful attention to the biblical text, is doctrinally Reformed, focuses on Christ through the lens of redemptive history, and applies the Bible to our contemporary setting.

Table of Contents:

Esther: The Hidden King Delivers

1. Standing Firm against the Empire (1:1-22)

2. Beauty and the Beast (2:1-23)

3. Mordecai Makes a Stand (3:1-15)

4. The Dog That Didn’t Bark (4:1-17)

5. Meekness and Subtlety (5:1-14)

6. The Man the King Delights to Honor (6:1-14)

7. Coming Out in Susa (7:1-10)

8. It Ain’t Over (8:1-17)

9. A World Turned Upside Down (9:1-10:3)

Ruth: The Lord Redeems

10. The Road to Nowhere (1:1-5)

11. Grace at the Bottom of the Barrel (1:6-22)

12. A Refuge from the Storm (2:1-23)

13. Ruth’s Redeemer (3:1-18)

14. Ruth’s Reward (4:1-22)

Author

Iain M. Duguid (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is professor of religion at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and visiting professor of Old Testament at Westminster Seminary California. He has written numerous works of biblical exposition, including Ezekiel in the NIV Application Commentary series, Numbers in the Preaching the Word series, and Esther & Ruth in the Reformed Expository Commentary series.