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Title: If you like poor writing and soap operas, this is for you.
Review: In sophomoric prose, the author attempts to recreate what life was like for women in Biblical times. For example, the phrase she uses to describe women nursing their children is "giving suck." It describes the story of Dinah who had sexual relations with Sechem outside of marriage. Later Sechem and his father Hamar try to make reparations offering both the traditional bride price for Dinah and a marriage between Dinah and Sechem. Jacob, Dinah's father agrees. Later, Dinah's brothers renege and kill Hamor's male relatives and steal their worldly possessions. This does not portray the Israelites in a very good light by modern sensibilities. But it does open an interesting anthropological window on the times. This is a far more interesting story to google than to get out of this dreary chick-lit attempt at historical fiction.
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