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  Detail - Ruth

Great-grandmother of King David, a widowed Moabite woman who followed her mother-in-law, Naomi, to Bethlehem, where she worked in the wheat fields of Boaz, her future husband. She is shown holding a sheaf of wheat with other workers in the background.

Iconography in Art and Architecture: Ruth

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