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Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable contribution in modern fiction: a new perspective of female life in biblical society. It is a vast and stirring work described as what the Bible might have been had it been written by God'ÂÂs daughters instead of sons.
Far beyond the traditional women-of-the-Bible sagas in both impact and vigor, The Red Tent is based upon a mention in Genesis of Jacob'ÂÂs only female offspring - ÂÂhis daughter, Dinah.
Author Anita Diamant, in the voice of Dinah, gives an insider'ÂÂs look at the details of women'ÂÂs lives in biblical times and a chronicle of their earthy stories and long-ignored histories. The red tent of the title is the place where women were sequestered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and illness. It is here that Dinah hears the whispered stories of her four mothers - ÂÂJacob'ÂÂs wives, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah - ÂÂand tells their tales to us in remarkable and thought-provoking oratories. Familiar passages from the Bible take on new life as Dinah fills in what the Bible has left out - ÂÂthe lives of women. Dinah tells us of her initiation into the religious and sexual practices of the tribe; Jacob'ÂÂs courtship with Rachel and Leah; the ancient world of caravans, farmers, midwives, and slaves; her ill-fated sojourn in the city of Sechem; her years in Canaan; and her half-brother Joseph'ÂÂs rise in Egypt.
Skillfully interweaving biblical tales with characters of her own invention, the author re-creates the life of Dinah providing an illuminating portrait of a courageous woman and the life she might have lived. A new view of the panorama of life in biblical times emerges from the female perspective, and the red tent itself becomes a symbol of womanly strength, love, and wisdom.
Far beyond the traditional women-of-the-Bible sagas in both impact and vigor, The Red Tent is based upon a mention in Genesis of Jacob'ÂÂs only female offspring - ÂÂhis daughter, Dinah.
Author Anita Diamant, in the voice of Dinah, gives an insider'ÂÂs look at the details of women'ÂÂs lives in biblical times and a chronicle of their earthy stories and long-ignored histories. The red tent of the title is the place where women were sequestered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and illness. It is here that Dinah hears the whispered stories of her four mothers - ÂÂJacob'ÂÂs wives, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah - ÂÂand tells their tales to us in remarkable and thought-provoking oratories. Familiar passages from the Bible take on new life as Dinah fills in what the Bible has left out - ÂÂthe lives of women. Dinah tells us of her initiation into the religious and sexual practices of the tribe; Jacob'ÂÂs courtship with Rachel and Leah; the ancient world of caravans, farmers, midwives, and slaves; her ill-fated sojourn in the city of Sechem; her years in Canaan; and her half-brother Joseph'ÂÂs rise in Egypt.
Skillfully interweaving biblical tales with characters of her own invention, the author re-creates the life of Dinah providing an illuminating portrait of a courageous woman and the life she might have lived. A new view of the panorama of life in biblical times emerges from the female perspective, and the red tent itself becomes a symbol of womanly strength, love, and wisdom.
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The voice of Dinah, the daughter of the biblical Jacob with the 12 sons. Very interesting look into the "red tent" where the women congregated once a month and when tending their infants. It is full of the history of how the women lived in biblical times.
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Skillfully interweaving biblical tales with events and characters of her own invention, Diamant\'s (Living a Jewish Life, 1991) sweeping first novel re-creates the life of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, from her birth and happy childhood in Mesopotamia through her years in Canaan and death in Egypt. When Dinah reaches puberty and enters the Red Tent (the place women visit to give birth or have their monthly periods), her mother and Jacob\'s three other wives initiate her into the religious and sexual practices of the tribe. Diamant sympathetically describes Dinah\'s doomed relationship with Shalem, son of a ruler of Shechem, and his brutal death at the hands of her brothers. Following the events in Canaan, a pregnant Dinah travels to Egypt, where she becomes a noted midwife. Diamant has written a thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating portrait of a fascinating woman and the life she might have lived.
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