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Margaret Adams Parker Woodcuts - The Book of Ruth

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And a man went...to sojourn in the fields of Moab... +
And the woman was left without her two boys and without her husband. +
Woodcut from the story of Ruth. +
And Boaz said to her at meal-time, "Come here and eat some bread, and dip your piece in the sour-wine." +
A woodcut from the story of Ruth. +
A woodcut from the story of Ruth. +
Ruth and Boaz are married. +
Ruth gives birth to Obed. +
 
 
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These woodcuts are selected from 20 woodcuts created by Margaret Adams Parker to accompany Ellen F. Davis' new translation of the Book of Ruth.  The woodcuts, translation, and Davis' explanatory notes on Ruth are published in Who are you my daughter?  Reading Ruth through Image and Text (Westminster John Knox, 2003.)  www.margaretadamsparker.com/ruth/ruth_main.aspx

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