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Title: I Do NOT Recommend this book
Review: As a fairly conservative Christian and supporter of feminism, I am deeply offended by this book. The author takes broad liberties with the biblical family history of Leah and Jacob, and seems inclined to satisfy her own personal agenda. By doing so, Ms Diamant paints an unfair portrait of a society of women that are, in a sense, one dimensional; it would appear woman (or at least this one particular woman, Dinah) is prone to make life-altering decisions on the superficial characteristics of how a man looks. I am also greatly offended by the pagan spirituality that these "women of the red tent" supposedly protect, nurture and revere amongst a strictly monotheistic, Jewish society - hardly plausible but then again this is fiction.I will agree that Ms Diamant is an outstanding writer. I just wholly oppose calling this a 'christian' fiction as Ms Diamant has simply used a biblical text as her launch pad to a undermine and confuse a judeo-christian worldview.
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