The Red Tent: A Novel
by Anita Diamant
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Author: Anita DiamantEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-15
ISBN: 0312169787
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Book Review: "The Red Tent" turns the Bible into a soap opera.
Summary: 3 Stars
I read Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent," with high expectations. In the library where I work, the ladies are lining up to read it, and it is the subject of many book discussions. I just finished reading it, and I am disappointed. As a student of the Bible, I am aware that our patriarchs and matriarchs were flawed individuals with strong personalities. However, Diamant doesn't just humanize our ancestors; she rewrites their story with a feminist spin, and in the process, she distorts the Bible for her own fictional purposes. "The Red Tent" is told through the eyes of Dinah, who was the only daughter of Leah and Jacob. As a work of fiction, "The Red Tent" is not only only a distortion of the Bible, but it is slow-moving. Diamant places a great emphasis on the sexuality of Jacob and his wives. I tired of reading about our lusty ancestors and their love-lives. I also did not see the point of making Rebecca into a shrew and Joseph into a conniving, power-mad leader. For those people who have studied the Bible seriously, these are insulting portrayals. Dinah's story in Egypt, which ended the novel, was an abrupt shift away from the first part of the book. Dinah's character is not interesting enough to carry the final chapters of the novel. Diamant's "The Red Tent," does have a positive message about the ways in which women have supported one another through the ages. However, in spite of its well-meaning feminist message about the universality of female bonding, "The Red Tent" is little more than a soap opera in the desert.
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