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Ruth Rabbah, also known as Midrash Ruth, is a midrash on the Book of Ruth. It presents verse-by-verse interpretations of most of the biblical book and was compiled in the Land of Israel. Its exegesis frequently incorporates homiletic material, scriptural cross-references, and introductory poems or sequences of poems. Sefaria.org describes Ruth Rabbah as a sixth-century CE midrash, while its catalog metadata gives a broader composition range of approximately 700–950 CE in Talmudic Israel/Babylonia.