Within the Biblical Narrative, both Rahab and Ruth were non-Israelite women who looked favorably upon the Israelites and ultimately made the choice to live among the Israelites rather than stay with their own people.
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Although this is not found anywhere in the Old Testament, Matthew 1:5 says that Rahab (Rachab) was the mother of Booz, who married Ruth, making them both ancestors of King David and, eventually, Jesus. Against this, Raymond E. Brown says, in An Introduction to the New Testament, there is little likelihood that Matthew's genealogy is strictly historical.
Another way of looking at what Rahab and Ruth have in common is to look at whether they really existed.
Rahab and Ruth have in common the very fact that they did not exist.
They both converted to Judaism and married Jewish men. See also:
http://judaism.answers.com/hebrew/does-archaeology-support-the-hebrew-bible
They are all in the Biblical lineage, leading from Abraham to Jesus(Matthew 1:1-5)
Rahab is not related to god, but to Joseph.
Rahab hid the spies who were sent by Joshua.
Rahab was a canaanite prostiture living within the city of Jericho.
In the Bible, her name was 'Rahab'. At Joshua chapters 2 through 6, Rahab was instrumental in helping the Israelites in their conquest of Jericho. She hid the two spies that Joshua had sent to spy out the land. And yes, she is the same Rahab mentioned in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Interestingly, Rahab and Bath-sheba were the not Israelite women, but they purified themselves and became Hebrew by marriage. Jesus' earthly mother Mary was the only Jewish woman mentioned in the Bible as an ancestress.