Diamant, A. (1997). The red tent / Anita Diamant. New York : A Wyatt Book for St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

A few weeks ago, Prof. Carr mentioned in class about a book called the Red Tent, in regards to the story of Dinah we were discussing in class.  Based on the summary and a little of what Prof. Carr said on the book, The Red Tent attempts to re-imagine the narrative of Dinah, in efforts to give her a voice on the occurrence of events that describe her presence in the Bible.

By reading a few pages, I feel as though this could go for a cool paper topic because the book serves as another interpretation of a story that doesn’t include much explicit details. By adding the missing details, the author attempts to look at the story from the female perspective, which I feel would be something worth looking at and because the interpretation itself generates it’s own set of questions worth answering as well.  Dinah is only give one line but the author creates a whole novel about her, so I’m pretty excited to read how she writes Dinah’s story.

To find this book. I went on the online library category and searched for the name of the book. It took me upstairs where most of the other books centered on the topic of religion were located. Eager to find more information surrounding the book, I did a brief search online. I found out that Lifetime is actually doing a TV mini series on the book, scheduled to air December 7 & 8. It’ll be interesting to see how this story is portrayed on the screen. Best believe I’ll be watching!