Book called the red tent5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() In Diamant’s narrative, Dinah marries Shechem and gives birth to his son. Then I had to figure out what occurred after the story.” That became the untold story that I could invent. But we don’t have Dinah’s side of the story. ![]() Shechem was willing to do anything to have her as his wife. It’s her brothers who tell us her fate and called what happened to her a rape. She observed: “We don’t really know what happened to Dinah. I thought it might be fruitful to look at those figures.”ĭiamant first thought she might write about Rachel and Leah, but couldn’t come up with a compelling plot around them. The Bill Moyers’ series “ Genesis: A Living Conversation,” where clergy from different religious traditions talked about characters in the Bible, was also popular at the time. “It was a wonderful, playful and thoughtful approach to the study of Torah. “At the time, my rabbi, Lawrence Kushner, was teaching classes on midrash,” she said. In a recent interview with JewishBoston, Diamant recalled that she was drawn to using a biblical story as the basis for her first foray into fiction for a few reasons. ![]()
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