{"id":5086,"date":"2020-11-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T20:12:03","slug":"commentary-of-judges-and-ruth-walpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/commentary-of-judges-and-ruth-walpole\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary of Judges and Ruth &#8211; G H S Walpole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/judges-and-ruth_walpole.jpg\" alt=\"George Henry Somerset Walpole [1854-1929], Handbook to Judges and Ruth for the Use of Teachers and Students.\" class=\"wp-image-5089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/judges-and-ruth_walpole.jpg 400w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/judges-and-ruth_walpole-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s free commentary is by the Rev G.H.S. Walpole, Principal of Bede College, Durham on the books of Judges and Ruth. Over the last few years I have been working on the digitisation of a number of commentary series originally written for secondary school students. This commentary is the first of a new set to go online &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/commentaries_rivingtons-handbooks.php\" target=\"_blank\">Rivington&#8217;s Handbooks to the Bible and Prayer Book<\/a> &#8211; which is quite rare today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/book-aid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Book Aid<\/a> for making a copy of this public domain title available for scanning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/book_judges-ruth_wadpole.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Henry Somerset Walpole [1854-1929], <em>Handbook to Judges and Ruth for the Use of Teachers and Students<\/em>. Rivingtons Handbooks to the Bible and Prayer Book. London: Rivingtons, 1901. Hbk. pp.200. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Conmentary on Judges<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Commentary on Ruth<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Index<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-5086_65a5ae-21 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-5086_65a5ae-21 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-5086_65a5ae-21\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main image: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld: <em>Ruth in Boaz&#8217;s Field<\/em>, 1828. 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