Women in the Bible

Dinah

Genesis 30:21; 34; 46:15

• Genesis 30:21  Afterwards [Leah] bore a daughter and named her Dinah.

• Genesis 34:2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the region, saw [Dinah], he seized her and lay with her by force.

• Genesis 34:25-27…Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city unawares and killed all the males. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away. And the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “Dinah” by Alison L. Joseph

• “Who is the Victim in the Dinah Story?” by Alison L. Joseph

• “The Debasement of Dinah” by Shawna Dolansky

• “Rape Culture Discourse And Female Impurity: Genesis 34 As A Case Study” by Jessica Keady

• “The Dark Stories” by Rachel Held Evans

• "Women and Violence in the Hebrew Bible" by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Podcasts

• “The Rape of Dinah” on Parsha in Progress podcast