![]() ![]() In Diamant’s narrative, Dinah marries Shechem and gives birth to his son. Then I had to figure out what occurred after the story.” That became the untold story that I could invent. But we don’t have Dinah’s side of the story. Shechem was willing to do anything to have her as his wife. It’s her brothers who tell us her fate and called what happened to her a rape. She observed: “We don’t really know what happened to Dinah. I thought it might be fruitful to look at those figures.”ĭiamant first thought she might write about Rachel and Leah, but couldn’t come up with a compelling plot around them. ![]() The Bill Moyers’ series “ Genesis: A Living Conversation,” where clergy from different religious traditions talked about characters in the Bible, was also popular at the time. “It was a wonderful, playful and thoughtful approach to the study of Torah. “At the time, my rabbi, Lawrence Kushner, was teaching classes on midrash,” she said. In a recent interview with JewishBoston, Diamant recalled that she was drawn to using a biblical story as the basis for her first foray into fiction for a few reasons. ![]()
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