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Ruth and Naomi, y'all. What do we think?
- gay: favourite
- super gay: boost
- straight: go home and think about your life and your choices
(Source text: https://www.sefaria.org/Ruth.1?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=bi)
I think it's also interesting to note that Ruth is an migrant farm worker. Imagine how we would tell the story if it happened today, in <wherever you're from>.
Also I'm convinced the following are extremely sexual euphemisms
"uncovered his feet"
"spread your robe over your handmaid"
"she lay at his feet until dawn"
"he drew off his sandal"
Okay maybe not that last one
*industriously paging through rabbinical commentary* just tell me if theyre fuckign or not
Thoughts-to-think on Ruth: levirate marriage, the precarious position of immigrants and widows in a society pre-soc--well, religion WAS their social safety net.
@nev uncovered his feet totally is a euphemism
@nev it's from a Christian perspective, but I did a video thing on Ruth several years ago, can dig it out of YouTube if you like. (I think I kept the Christian bit to "also, btw, genealogy of Jesus" but it's been a while.)
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What's interesting is the complex thing Boaz is called to do, as he needs to get the "Goel" (not sure about the English translation for that, but he is the closest male relative who is supposed to take the deceased's property but also marry his widow and have a son as the hair to the deceased) to give up his claim for Elimelech's lands. And he does it by reminding him that the lands come bundled up with Ruth the Moabite, an outsider.
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These are obviously euphemisms.
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Oh, that's right, Shavuot starts tonight. A good reason for me to eat the fancy cheese I just got at the farmers market.
Also, now I'm wondering how The Grapes of Wrath is related to Ruth.