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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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At the archives of Propaganda Fide in Rome, Sandra Mazzolini, Prof of Missionary Ecclesiology at the Pontifical Urban University shows and discusses the historic letter from the Coptic Pope in Alexandria to the head of the newly founded Propaganda Fi Turkana people walk 25 miles to get confirmed in Isiolo, Kenya, June 1985 A woodcut from the story of Ruth. Footage taken by Bishop Graham Kings, during a visit to Malakal, South Sudan. Bishop Hilary Garang from South Sudan is on Sabbatical in the UK at Ridley Hall during the autumn semester of 2016. Commissioning of the Mission Theologian The Room of the Signature, Vatican Museum, Raphael's frescos of Philosophy, Theology, Justice and Poetry. Filmed by Graham Kings, 30th January 2016 A carving of the feeding of the 5,000 from St Andrew's College, Kabare, Kenya, by Benson Ndaka And Boaz said to her at meal-time, "Come here and eat some bread, and dip your piece in the sour-wine."