Inside the Red Tent

Hack Polaski Sandra

Description

The biblical story of Dinah has often been overlooked, until Anita Diamant's The Red Tent (St. Martin's Press, 1997), that is. With equal skill and passion, Sandra Hack Polaski unravels the biblical story of Leah, Rachel, Zil'pah, Bil'hah, and Leah's daughter Dinah, probing aspects of The Red Tent that give us insight into the text and into the lives of women in the ancient Near East. She gives us a glimpse "inside the red tent" at the families, relationships, encounters, goddesses, and God that defined their lives and that define ours.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Judaism
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Chalice Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780827230316
• Langue: English

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Inside the Red Tent Sandra Hack Polaski

I n s i d e the R e d T e n t

Sandra Hack Polaski

© Copyright 2006 by Sandra Hack Polaski All rights reserved. For permission to reuse content, please contact Copy- right Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750- 8400, www.copyright.com. Biblical quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from theNew Revised Stan- dard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Introducing the Characters ofThe Red Tent

Introduction

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What Happened to Dinah?

Discovering Dinah

Reading Texts, Filling Gaps

Where Is God in All This?

Families, Natural and Invented

Retelling the Story

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Acknowledgments

As in raising a child, it takes a village to write a book. In particular, thanks are due: To Trent Butler and the staff at Chalice Press, who had confidence that I could write this book. To Sandie Gravett, who helped me see that I could write it, and Karla Bohmbach, who steered me in right directions. To Jeanette Holt, Anne Shelley, Suzanne Stovall Vinson, and others whose enthusiasm for the novel helped me understand why this book needed to be written. To Nancy Waldo and Denise Bennett, who pointed me toward storytelling resources. To Juliana Claassens, who read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions. To Don Polaski, who read drafts, suggested improve- ments, and listened. To Hannah and Will Polaski, who put up with Mommy’s preoccupation with writing, and who reminded me that there was a world outside my work. To all the communities of women who are sustained by the power of story.

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