At a Glance
- Exhibition
- The Book of Ruth: Medieval to Modern
- Dates
- February 14 through October 4, 2020
- Museum
- The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
- Listing type
- Exhibition
- Description
Famine and flight, emigration and immigration, foreignness: these are some of the societal issues touched upon by the anonymous author of the Bible’s Book of Ruth, whose titular character was a great-grandmother of King David and, in the Christian tradition, an ancestor of Jesus Christ.
