![]() ![]() Tired of being poor, Stevens father is certain that preaching the Word of the Lord is the easy way to fame and fortune. The result is a beautiful, thought-provoking novel. The Tent Gary Paulsen 3.54 403 ratings67 reviews Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions. Seeking to preserve not only her own remarkable experiences but those of a long-ago era of womanhood left largely undocumented by the original male scribes and later Biblical scholars, Dinah breaks a male silence that has lasted for centuries, revealing the ancient origins of many contemporary religious practices and sexual politics. Moving panoramically from Mesopotamia to Canaan to Egypt, The Red Tent is robustly narrated by Dinah, from her upbringing by the four wives of Jacob, to her growth into one of the most influential women of her time. ![]() Lost to the history by the chronicles of men, here at last is the dazzling story of Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter in the Book of Genesis. ![]() That is why I became a footnote, my story a brief detour between the well-known history of my father Jacob, and the celebrated chronicle of Joseph, my brother.’ The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. ![]()
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