I Love this book! It is the story of the Women of the Bible- spoken in Dinah's voice, grandaughter of Rebekah. If you love geneology & the wisdom of women from the past, you'll love this book. Reader Beware: It is very graphic.

Wow! I'm surprised I really enjoyed this book...Again..woman need other WOMEN'S Friendship's! I read this book in 8 books, I couldn't put it down...I'm so not a book reading but this one just sucked me right in!

Readable bit of biblical history from the point of view of a young woman. Dinah is the youngest of Jacob's children. The twelve sons founded the twelve tribes of Israel, while Dinah's name and destiny were essentially an afterthought. Diamant makes the character real along with many other characters from the Old Testament, and provides a sense of the texture of the times.

Credit this book with getting me to open a Bible for the first time since college. Genesis, to be exact. I recommend reading the applicable passages after reading "The Red Tent" in order to appreciate just how much of a fabricated fiction the book really is. But also to appreciate how Diamant manages to drop in so much modern, feminist social critique into the otherwise extremely misogynist and inhumane goings on of the heroine's time.
Overall an entertaining women's soap opera of a book, I came away with a renewed appreciation for my place in time, especially how bizarre it is that women these days expect to wait until their 30s and 40s to have children, and how much we lack the comfort and honor of any sort of 'red tent' rituals in our culture. I for one would really appreciate having 3 days off a month!

It's amazing how much can be written about such a small amount of scripture. Anita Diament has made sure that a barely mentioned figure in the Bible is not forgotten. I appreciated the view of the life of women at the time of Jacob.

I decided to stop reading this after about 50 pages. I don't have a problem when an author fictionalizes biblical stories as long as they stick with what we already know from the bible about the circumstances. This story just takes too many liberties in changing facts 180 degrees, and I found that distracting.

Seriously, one of my top 5 favorites.

This book is a must read! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Struggled with this book. I wouldn't have finished it but it is a book club selection. Hard to stay focused on what I was reading. Couldn't get past the inconsistencies between the novel and what I learned as a youngster in Sunday School. Besides, it was a boring story with underdeveloped characters. Very repetitive.

It was slow moving but liked her depiction on the life of women in the bible

A fictional twist to a biblical story. Enjoyable and interesting read.

I reluctantly began reading this book for our Island Book Club and would never have picked it up on my own. But I ended up enjoying the book very much for the many beautifully written sections and the historical information presented. It was a window into the lifeways of women during Biblical times and I would recommend it.