it was nice reading about time long gone, and hearing the voice of Dina that was missing from the bible and on whiom i always wandered about. there was something enchanting about the story when i read it. in some ways the story was too long, few parts of it less imaginable. it a good story just not ...
Dinah is the daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph, remembered in the Bible only for being the victim of a rape that leads to mass murder and devastation for her family. In The Red Tent, Diamant imagines what it would have been like to be a woman in biblical times and retells the story from the po...
In many ways this story is simplstic. The story of Dinah in the Bible is a short one, and Diamant does fill it out. It should be noted, however, it is not an action heavy book. It is more about relationships between women and between men. This is the reason why when Dinah leaves her family, the ...
I liked but didn't love this book, although that might be because I found the last third of it less compelling than I had the first two-thirds. The Red Tent is an imagining of the story of Dinah, sister of Joseph, who is only mentioned briefly in the Old Testament. It has been adopted by the women's...
I loved it! I don't buy bestsellers, ever, but this one I bought, and I'm glad. I don't want to tell the story, you can find it on the book covers, but it wasn't about the story what did it for me. It's about what it makes you think about: your mother; yourself (me being a woman); the religions taki...
This was an interesting read. I really enjoyed the female perspective, but it wasn't very accurate, and it was pretty biased against men. Still, it is a fictional story, so I can accept that. It was very well written.
Giving women in the Bible a voice and a story. Not entirely historically accurate and I'm not super comfortable with the idea of turning a rape into a love story, but the prose was executed well and the story really picked up when she met the prince.
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