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The Red Tent - 8/15/2008 11:51:12 AM
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Fledgling
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I am currently reading the part of the bible that "The Red Tent" is based on. Does anyone have any comments about the book?
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/18/2008 11:36:15 AM
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I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/18/2008 5:27:30 PM
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Auben
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Heh. I think you could do a Search and find a few threads on that book.
I enjoyed it as a novel. I'm a bit disturbed about the number of women I see read it and then think it's an accurate depiction of the Bible based on historical research.
Honestly, Diamont is a modern feminist writer who makes her characters more modern and feminist then I think is historically accurate for the time period. Read it with a grain of salt.
As a novel it's interesting though...about women and community.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/19/2008 10:53:37 AM
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I totally did not like this book--I found it highly unBiblical and as the previous poster stated, more filled with modern feminist ideas than anything else. It promotes a type of godess worhip IMO.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/19/2008 11:18:35 AM
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I started to read it and couldn't finish it. It felt too wrong to me. Like someone took people from the Bible and treated them as characters that they could make up stories about.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/20/2008 4:47:23 PM
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huh...i liked it alot and im the least feminist woman you'll ever meet. for me, it reminded me that people in the bible days were actual real people. they did the same things we do everyday, differently of course, but they were actual real people with emotions and so on.
sure some of it may not have been historically accurate, but i enjoyed it alot.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/23/2008 4:15:33 PM
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I picked up that book thinking that it was going to be a Christian book. I was thoroughly disappointed. It's a book that's based (and I use that term loosely) on the Bible, but IMO, not Christian. Some of the stuff it dealt with just did not need to be dealt with. I wouldn't waste your time with it.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/29/2008 10:46:50 AM
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I've read the Red Tent 2 or 3 times and enjoy it thoroughly. It takes the Biblical characters and tells a possible backstory. It seems historically accurate, and it's my understanding that the geographical area was heavily into goddess/fertility worship, so I don't see this as a necessarily feminist work. The people in the Bible didn't spring up in a Christian motif, but were gathered out of the neighboring regions and their idolatrous beliefs and practices. We know from the Biblical account that Jacob was a tricky/cagey/not-always-stalwart person, which God obviously knew and still chose him. And we also know that Jacob had some problems in all his family relationships. I think it's really interesting and refreshing that God still calls even the less-than-honorable persons and remakes them into His image. The Biblical account mentions Jacob's daughter Dinah only in passing and then never speaks of her again. I just think the author provides some good possibilities as to why.
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RE: The Red Tent - 8/31/2008 12:44:32 AM
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As a FICTION story it was not bad, although I only read half of it. I couldn't stomach the characterization of Jacob's wives as pagan goddess-worshippers. So don't read it thinking it's going to biblically accurate. It's not.
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RE: The Red Tent - 9/11/2008 4:54:10 PM
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I read it and enjoyed it... Parts of it are obviously unbiblical; However, there are also things I hear a majority of Christians touting about that story that are equally as unbiblical (or, at least, assumptions that are not in the text.) I think it's a good read as long as you check the Bible and make 100% sure you don't allow either the fictional account or other well-meaning Christians to bias you so that you don't know what God said concerning the matter.
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