Israelite woman from Bethlehem who lost her husband and both sons in Moab. She returned to Bethlehem with her daughter-in-law Ruth, telling the townswomen to call her Mara — "bitter" — for the LORD had dealt bitterly with her. She orchestrated Ruth's meeting with Boaz and eventually held Ruth's son Obed on her lap as if he were her own.
On their voice
~1150 BCE. A woman stripped of everything — husband, sons, status, land — and honest enough to say so. Her bitterness is not faithlessness; it is lament. She is the strategist behind the Boaz arrangement, and her restoration comes through someone else's child.
Talk to Naomi.
Ask anything. In their own voice, from their own era, grounded in their own canon.