{ "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000045", "slug": "boaz", "url_path": "/types-symbols/boaz/", "canonical_name": "Boaz", "entry_classifications": [ "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION", "ANALOGY" ], "modules": [ "CULTURAL_PRACTICES", "CHRISTOLOGICAL_TYPES" ], "aliases": [], "legacy_present": false, "legacy_raw_wording_public": false, "senses": [ { "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000089", "label": "Boaz as historical goel / family redeemer", "classification": "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION", "definition": "Boaz functions as a goel, a family guardian/redeemer who protects family interests and undertakes redemption within Ruth's social/legal setting.", "not_always": "This historical-cultural role is not itself proof that Boaz is a formal Christological type.", "scope_note": "Establish the Ruth/Israelite legal function before theological analogy.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000089", "statement": "Ruth explicitly identifies Boaz as a goel (family redeemer/guardian) operating within concrete kinship, land, inheritance, and marriage obligations; this is historical-cultural description before it is any typological claim.", "asserted_classifications": [ "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 1, "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION", "status": "ESTABLISHED", "public_wording_class": "SCRIPTURE_EXPLICITLY_IDENTIFIES", "scope_limitation": "The established claim is Boaz's historical role in Ruth, not a Christological identity.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": null, "residual_uncertainty": "The exact legal combination of levirate marriage, land redemption, and family guardianship in Ruth has interpretive complexities, but Boaz's redeemer role is explicit.", "theological_intersections": [ "COVENANT", "OTHER" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000181", "osis_start": "Ruth.3.9", "osis_end": "Ruth.3.13", "display_label": "Ruth 3:9-13", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000182", "osis_start": "Ruth.4.4", "osis_end": "Ruth.4.10", "display_label": "Ruth 4:4-10", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" } ], "source_citations": [ { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000063", "author_editor": null, "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison", "publication_data": "Canonical text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 9", "locator": null, "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY", "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT" ], "locator_targets": [] }, { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000072", "author_editor": null, "title": "NET Bible Ruth 3:9 note on goel", "publication_data": "Biblical Studies Press", "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/passage.php?passage=Rut+3%3A9&theme=false", "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND", "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT" ], "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL", "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/passage.php?passage=Rut+3%3A9&theme=false" } ] } ], "s8_wording_provenance": null } ] }, { "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000090", "label": "Boaz-Christ kinsman-redeemer analogy", "classification": "ANALOGY", "definition": "Christian interpreters have long compared Boaz's kinship-redemption role with Christ's redemptive work and incarnation/kinship with humanity.", "not_always": "The NT never identifies Boaz by name as a type or source-text fulfillment.", "scope_note": "Retain as named scholarly/traditional proposal unless stronger inspired linkage is demonstrated.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000090", "statement": "Some conservative scholars explicitly propose Boaz as a picture/type of Christ the Kinsman-Redeemer because he is qualified, willing, and able to redeem; the analogy is theologically coherent but lacks explicit NT identification of Boaz as a formal type.", "asserted_classifications": [ "ANALOGY" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 6, "grade_basis": "G6_PLAUSIBLE_OR_TRADITIONAL", "status": "TRADITIONAL_INTERPRETATION", "public_wording_class": "SOME_SCHOLARS_SUGGEST", "scope_limitation": "Use the verified goel role as the historical base, but present Boaz-Christ as traditional/scholarly analogy rather than established type.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Boaz may illustrate redemption because both Boaz and Christ are redeemers in different covenantal settings, without Boaz being a divinely intended formal type.", "residual_uncertainty": "Heather Goodman and Lehman Strauss explicitly make the Christological kinsman-redeemer connection; the canonical text itself stops short of doing so.", "theological_intersections": [ "CHRISTOLOGY", "SOTERIOLOGY" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000181", "osis_start": "Ruth.3.9", "osis_end": "Ruth.3.13", "display_label": "Ruth 3:9-13", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000182", "osis_start": "Ruth.4.4", "osis_end": "Ruth.4.10", "display_label": "Ruth 4:4-10", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000183", "osis_start": "Heb.2.14", "osis_end": "Heb.2.17", "display_label": "Hebrews 2:14-17", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" } ], "source_citations": [ { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000072", "author_editor": null, "title": "NET Bible Ruth 3:9 note on goel", "publication_data": "Biblical Studies Press", "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/passage.php?passage=Rut+3%3A9&theme=false", "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "HISTORICAL_BACKGROUND", "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT" ], "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL", "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/passage.php?passage=Rut+3%3A9&theme=false" } ] }, { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000073", "author_editor": "Heather Goodman", "title": "A Literary Analysis of the Book of Ruth", "publication_data": "Bible.org, 2006", "locator": "https://bible.org/article/literary-analysis-book-ruth", "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT" ], "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL", "target": "https://bible.org/article/literary-analysis-book-ruth" } ] }, { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000074", "author_editor": "Lehman Strauss", "title": "The Atonement of Christ", "publication_data": "Bible.org, 2004", "locator": "https://bible.org/article/atonement-christ", "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT", "INTERPRETIVE_HISTORY" ], "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL", "target": "https://bible.org/article/atonement-christ" } ] }, { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000063", "author_editor": null, "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison", "publication_data": "Canonical text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 9", "locator": null, "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY", "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT" ], "locator_targets": [] } ], "s8_wording_provenance": { "decision": "RETAIN_FROZEN_GRADE_STATUS_WORDING", "source_family_result": "PASS_MULTIPLE_INDEPENDENT_SOURCES", "alternative_control": "Matthew’s genealogy names Boaz but no NT text explicitly interprets Ruth’s goel episode as formal typology.", "supplemental_sources": [ { "source_id": "TSP-S8-SRC-000003", "author_editor": "R. Laird Harris; Gleason L. Archer Jr.; Bruce K. Waltke, eds.", "title": "Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament — Boaz entry", "publication_data": "Moody Press, 1980, vol. 1, p. 118", "locator": "Local governed library copy: TWOT.pdf; Boaz entry p. 118", "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "role": "SUPPORT", "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "NON_URL_LOCATOR", "target": "Local governed library copy: TWOT.pdf; Boaz entry p. 118" } ] } ] } } ] } ], "lexeme_mappings": [ { "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000065", "language": "HEBREW", "lemma_unicode": "גֹּאֵל", "transliteration": "goel", "strongs_id": "H1350", "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY", "semantic_domain_ids": [] } ], "canonical_relationships": [], "negative_guardrails": [] }