[Avodah] Would Ruth's conversion be rejected today?

[Zev Sero]

On 3/06/2012 10:47 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> And in the particulars of this case, it would change the story from
> being about a mother-in-law and her fully adult daughters-in-law, into
> a story about a mother-in-law who was more like an adoptive mother,
> and her teenaged (certainly no older than 22) daughters-in-law.

No, no older than 12! Which doesn't mean they were married at 2,
because we don't know how far into the 10 years they got married.
And that's beside the fact that for this theory to work their fathers
must have been dead before their marriage and giyur.

Still, it's unlikely.

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Zev Sero
zev at sero.name