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Red Tent
The Red Tent was a wonderful start for this first time author. Mrs. Diamant lyrical prose vividly took me to the land of Cannan and the banks of the Nile. If you have an interest in biblical and historical literature then this book is for you.This rich book follows the life of a biblical character that is briefly mentioned in the bible. Dinah's story continues in The Red Tent where the bible left off. I enjoyed reading of the old ways of women, of friendships and relationships made and loss.The Red Tent is several books in one, it is a lesson in history, a women's study, and a love story all in one. If you are wanting a book that contains, betrayal, passion, romance and good writing that captures you and does not let you go until the last page then The Red Tent is for you.
Red Tent
The Red Tent is an honest look at Eastern Mediterranean womanhood long before the stir of liberation. It deserves respect as a resplendent narrative of love and acquiescence to the inevitabilities of women's lives in Canaan. Dinah is the type of woman who overcomes and survives because she takes power where it is offered and puts curiosity to work as a medical tool that saves lives, both male and female. Living in memory and a perpetually renewed love of family and children, she triumphs over regret. In maturity, she willingly seeks a new love that sweeps over her much as birth pangs announce the arrival of her son. An honored sage femme, she embraces a celestial reward--reunion in the afterlife with her beloved mothers, the wives of Jacob. This motif is neither trivial nor PC--it's universal.
Red Tent
If you desire to be moved deeply and feel connected to the history of life through our female ancestors, read this book without delay. Be prepared to go on many journeys from the spiritual to the emotional to the visualization of ancient sights and sounds.I marvel at this book and how it's affected me by giving me strength. This is a midrash tale full of wonder and delight.
Red Tent
Although you don't have to be familiar with the Old Testament to reap the rich rewards in The Red Tent, it certainly provides an interesting counterpoint to the tale. (The tale can be read from Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35). What is so rich about The Red Tent is its perspective, precisely, that of Dinah's--a woman before the God of Abraham was the only God around. Indeed, the women of this story have their own gods, their own traditions, their own stories. The power of this book lies in the depth of the storytelling; it is alive, captivating, and rich in the wisdom of women. Take, for instance, this quote where Dinah's mother explains a mysyery to her:"The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to women that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon's birth--to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. they imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them. "In the red tent, the truth is known. In the red tent, where days pass like a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana courses through us, cleasning the body of last month's death, preparing the body to receive the new month's life, women give thanks--for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that life comes between our legs, and that life costs blood."I always appreciate a novel that deepens your own perspective, one that calls forth in our own lives a fuller response to the events of our lives. The Red Tent is such a book. I am certain now that when my own daughters come of age, their will be a ceremony for them that expresses their own connection to the great mother Earth, and her sister the moon. But do not think that this is just a coming of age story for women, because it is not. It is a story woven with the threads of birth and death, love and agony, connectedness and solitude. And its culmination, its last breath, is a glorious sunset of wisdom and words.
Red Tent
This book was recommended and loaned to me by my mother, and I'm very grateful! It is so beautifully written that reading it is effortless. I love the wonderfully textured look at the lives of women in biblical times. If you are afraid that this book will be too religious, you will be pleasently surprised!
Red Tent
This is a book about the relationship among women. It begins with the relationship between four sisters and the connections between them. Throughout this book you will see relationships between a mother and a daughter, a daughter and a mother-in-law, and a daughter and a grandmother, you will even see the bonds between a women and her true friends. This book was so wonderful up until the very end. I gave it to my Mother and to my sisters who also could not put it down. This book will cause you to reflect on your relationships with the women in your life, from past to present. An EXELLENT READ