Ruth's folly

roegcamel and kenny, it's not just that Ruth has this privilege FBI info, it's that Vukovich accuses her of setting up him and Chance. What kind of set-up can this be? How is she getting even with Chance by sending him to arrest the wrong guys? When Chance goes to the strip club, it's obvious she doesn't realize that Chance intends to rob Ling. It might work if she knew Chance had robbed hustlers before and was desperate for the money for his own sting of Masters. Then it might make sense for Ruth to send him to commit a crime against people only she knew were law-enforcement agents, but none of that is in the script. The fact is, all she knows after the aborted robbery is that Ling never showed up for his appointment. "He sure didn't, " Chance responds.

Here ya go, wrfarley:

Mainly: Ruth's identity as a non-Israelite and the stress on the need for an inclusive attitude towards foreigners suggests an origin in the fifth century BCE, when intermarriage had become controversial [/i]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ruth
The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות‎‎, Ashkenazi pronunciation: [məˈɡɪləs rus], Megilath Ruth, "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible; in the Christian canon it is treated as a history book and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.[1] It is named after its central figure, Ruth the Moabitess, the great-grandmother of David.

The book tells of Ruth's accepting the God of the Israelites as her God and the Israelite people as her own. In Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth tells Naomi, her Israelite mother-in-law, "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me." The book is held in esteem by Jews who fall under the category of Jews-by-choice, as is evidenced by the considerable presence of Boaz in rabbinic literature. The Book of Ruth also functions liturgically, as it is read during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot ("Weeks").[2]

The book is traditionally ascribed to the prophet Samuel, but does not name its author.[3] A date during the monarchy (i.e., prior to 586 BCE) is suggested by the book's interest in the ancestry of David, but Ruth's identity as a non-Israelite and the stress on the need for an inclusive attitude towards foreigners suggests an origin in the fifth century BCE, when intermarriage had become controversial (as seen in Ezra 9:1 and Nehemiah 13:1).[4]


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