All the while, Dinah is raised by the many women in her family, who take her into the red tent, or the tent where they all go during their time of menstruation. Dinah and her family move a few times, from Laban’s land to a place with more opportunities for Jacob’s many sons to find wives and lives of their own. After Dinah’s birth, Rachel’s curse is broken and she has two healthy sons named Benjamin and Joseph. Leah finally bears her seventh child and only daughter, Dinah, whom Rachel delivers. Rachel is pregnant often but miscarries over and over again she ultimately decides to become a midwife to serve her sisters. Leah gives birth to six boys Bilhah and Zilpah have two each. Jacob has sex with all the women, who continue to bear sons. Rachel becomes exceedingly jealous of her sister, and Laban offers both daughters, as well as his illegitimate children, Bilhah and Zilpah, as Jacob’s concubines and servants in order to convince Jacob to end the feud between Rachel and Leah. There Jacob meets and falls in love with Rachel, but he’s tricked into having sex with Leah, the older sister who also loves him, on the night of his honeymoon. Dinah tells how Jacob is tricked by his brother Esau into going to his Uncle Laban’s property to find a wife. Leah is depicted as strong but moody Rachel is the beautiful, vapid mother Zilpah is the most spiritual and also the most eccentric of the wives and Bilhah is the softest and most gentle of the four women. Dinah sees Zilpah and Bilhah as her mothers as well, and though there is little focus on female characters in the Bible, Dinah portrays her family as a clan of strong and unique women. She tells the tale of how Jacob came to marry both Leah and her sister Rachel, as well as handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah. The book begins with a brief history of Dinah’s family, told from Dinah’s perspective, with a specific focus on the love story between her mother Leah and father Jacob. She is the daughter of Leah, one of Jacob’s four wives. The novel’s narrator, Dinah, is the daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph. Published in 1997, it tells the story of Dinah, her experience as a woman in the biblical era, and the famous tale of her love affair gone wrong, as seen through Dinah’s own eyes. The Red Tent is a work of literary fiction and a biblical retelling by Anita Diamant.
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