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Title: Fit only for kindling
Review: This book does a horrible diservice to the Word of God. Among other things, it had quite a few significant Biblical inaccuracies in it. Dinah was raped, not fell in love and had premarital sex. The Bible doesn't depict Joseph as bisexual. The book portrays God as cruel, glorifies pagan goddesses, and describes bestiality by the shepherds. The author didn't even try to base the book on the Bible (but felt it was okay to "borrow" their characters). When I looked at Anita Diamant reader's notes for the book, she states "My research focused on the everyday life of women in this period of history, in the ancient Near East. I did not study the Bible or rabbinic sources, but concentrated instead on the food, clothing, social organisation, architecture, and medicine of the era (c. 1500 BCE)." The sad thing is some people will read the book and mistakenly think it is Biblically accurate.
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