In the final verses of Ruth, the townswomen acknowledge a shift in relationship and status as they declare that Ruth’s newborn son Obed is the redeemer—not Boaz—and extol Ruth’s loyalty to ...

Ploni Almoni was her late husband’s uncle and as so, the first eligible redeemer. The Megillah, however, introduces us to Ruth and Boaz first and we are immediately invested in their powerful ...

This unusual process is referred to as being a redeemer. This term means that someone is buying back someone or something for themselves. In this case Boaz was buying Ruth out of slavery.