The Book of Ruth is the eighth book in the order of the canon of Sacred Scriptures as assembled in the English bible. It comes after the Book of Judges and precedes the Book of 1 Samuel. The Book of Ruth is the personal story of a Moabite woman. She was not an Israelite, but the writer tells a moving story of Ruth’s loyalty to her mother-in-law, her journey to Israel, and her subsequent marriage to…