Genesis: Genesis is the first book in the Bible. “It is the book of beginning” (Hindson, Towns, 2013, p.35). It details the foundations for much of the theology of the Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible titles the book of Genesis bereshith which means “in the beginning” (Hindson, Towns, 2013 p.35). Genesis literary genre is Narrative History and Genealogies. The book of Genesis does not identify its author but the work was traditionally attributed to Moses. The written date of the book is 1445 BC. Genesis starts with creation. God created the heaven and the earth and it ends with how the Israelites settled in Egypt and how they grows into a nation.
The purpose of Genesis is to reveal how the sin of man is met by God’s intervention and redemption. Genesis tells how and why God chose Abraham’s family and made a covenant with them. The covenant God made with them is the foundation of Israelite theology and identity. The book also details how the covenant was stabled and records various obstacles to the covenant. The major events in the book include: the
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The book of Ruth is one of the great love stories of all time (Hindson, Towns, 2013 p.111). The book would have been written sometime after the period of the judges (1375-1050 BC), purpose of the book is to show how three people in this book remained strong in character and true to God even when the society around them was collapsing. Ruth was a female, Gentile, pagan, a widowed and a Moabitess. The Moabites were descendants of Lot. She plays important role as the great grandmother of King David (Ruth 4:18) and ancestress in Jesus of Nazareth of line. The book starts with Elimelech’s family; they migrated to Moab due to famine in Bethlehem. Ruth married one of Elimelech’s sons, a Hebrew man living in Moab. After the death of her husband, she decided to go with Naomi to Bethlehem in Israel, her widowed Hebrew mother-in-law, who lost her husband and her two sons in