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A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent . Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more... read more
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“Alas, many of her daughters have forgotten the secret of Innana's gift, and turned their backs on the red tent. Esua's wives, the daughters of Edom, whom Rebecca despises, give no lesson or welcome to their young women when they come of age. They treat them like beasts -setting them out, alone and afraid, shut up in the dark days of the new moon, without wine and without the councel of their mothers. They do not celebrate the first blood of those who will bear life, nor do they return it to the earth. The set aside the Opening, which is the sacred business of being women, and permit men to display their daughter's bloody sheets, as though even the prettiest baal would require such a degradation in tribute.”
Leah speaking to Dinah in Part II: Chapter 5 -
“If my brother is so concerned about the shape of our brother-in-law's penis, let our father demand his foreskin for a bride-price. Indeed, let all the men of Shechem become like us. Let them pile up their membranes as high as my father's tent pole, so that their sons and our sons will piss the same, and rut the same, and none will be able to tell us apart.”
Joseph, Part II: Chapter 7
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THEIR STORIES BEGAN with the day that my father appeared.
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