Judges presents Israel's frailty, the nation's need for deliverance, and God's use of deeply flawed leaders to carry his people through a dark period of their history. Ruth tells a smaller story within the same era, showing God quietly at work in the lives of a few individuals.

Mary Evans's replacement Tyndale commentary places each book in its historical and canonical context, examines the key theological themes and addresses the questions a twenty-first-century reader brings to them. The Tyndale Commentaries are designed to help the reader understand what the text says and what it means, without requiring the original languages.