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Colin Donald Special to The Daily Yomiuri

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The Red Tent

By Anita Diamant

Picador, 14.95 dollars

One of those books that sell by reader-to-reader recommendation rather than hype, The Red Tent is Jewish writer Anita Diamant's best-selling reconstruction of Old Testament life for the marginalized woman. Dinah, sister of Jacob, has a walk-on part in the book of Genesis, but here she gets a starring role, observing the rigidly patriarchal customs of Iron Age Israelites from the confines of the "red tent"--or the place where women are confined during menstruation. Recreating the earthy idiom of an ancient …

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