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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant is a compelling tale with a biblical setting. The heroine Dinah is a little mention character in the Bible. Dinah is Jacob's daughter and Joseph's sister. In Diamant's version she is greatly valued as the only daughter of Jacob's four wives who are all sisters. Dinah shares the red tent with her mothers and is cocooned in their loving protection. They each give her valuable lessons and gifts of life as they see it. As it turns out she will have need all of their gif
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This book was a creative and fictionalized version of biblical character Dinah. Dinah is born to Leah and Jacob and is raised by four “mothers”, all Jacob's wives who also happen to be sisters. Dinah is the only girl amongst many brothers, so is treated extra-special by her mothers/aunts. Diamant weaves a powerful tale of the strength and power of the family's females beginning with Jacob's first sighting of Rachel and subsequent family stories as related to Dinah by her biological mother and co
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