I could see this story going with either interpretation, as I can detect the familial bond and loyalty, but I can also sense some hints of potential romantic tension. Additionally, we don't know everything that has occurred in the past, and to paraphrase someone's comment from a post on reddit, we can't know every event that occurred in a person from the ancient past's life, nor can we judge their sexuality or something from the knowledge we do have. From the context, I doubt this was the case, but we can never truly know. As another commenter on the same post said(or something along those lines), for all we know, every 20th century famous person could have been queer. I mean, that's my interpretation as someone wholly unassociated with any religion that has this tale in their holy book and simply read it in a literature class in high school.
Also, additional thing that's pretty much unrelated, but when I imagined Ruth clinging to Naomi's legs, it looked so cute! Maybe that cuteness is causing me to be biased, who really knows.
I could see this story going with either interpretation, as I can detect the familial bond and loyalty, but I can also sense some hints of potential romantic tension. Additionally, we don't know everything that has occurred in the past, and to paraphrase someone's comment from a post on reddit, we can't know every event that occurred in a person from the ancient past's life, nor can we judge their sexuality or something from the knowledge we do have. From the context, I doubt this was the case, but we can never truly know. As another commenter on the same post said(or something along those lines), for all we know, every 20th century famous person could have been queer. I mean, that's my interpretation as someone wholly unassociated with any religion that has this tale in their holy book and simply read it in a literature class in high school.
Also, additional thing that's pretty much unrelated, but when I imagined Ruth clinging to Naomi's legs, it looked so cute! Maybe that cuteness is causing me to be biased, who really knows.