An award-winning commentary on one of the most loved books of the Bible: Robert L. Hubbard Jr.'s work on Ruth took the 1989 Best Commentary Book Award from Christianity Today and has served scholars, students and pastors ever since.

Hubbard's introduction takes up text, canonicity, literary criticism, authorship, date, purpose, setting and genre before the exposition proper, and his handling of the levirate custom and the redeemer's role is what preachers return to. Now available in paperback as part of the Eerdmans Classic Biblical Commentaries, it remains among the best explications of the story of Ruth and Naomi and its bearing on Christians today.