Ancient history

The red tent is narrated by dinah, the daughter of Jacob-the patraiarch of the Israelites in the old testament while not prominently featured in the bible, Dinah is given the spotlight in this novel: she gets to speak about her experience as a women in the early day of humanity .

When they menstruate ,the woman in Dinah's family stay in a red tent together ,where they discuss all short of local event. Diamant admits that there is so concerte evidence for this practice in ancient Israel, but it was common across many early civilization. Her novel brings biblical history to life, and more importantly, give voice To a crucial half of the human population, a group too often disregarded