The Rape of Dinah: Motives for Incorporation in the History of the Patriarchs

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dc.contributor.authorKlimova, Veronika
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-07T12:06:03Z
dc.date.available2025-02-07T12:06:03Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis article presents a philological analysis of the tragic story of Dinah, the daughter of the patriarch Jacob, as described in Gen 34. A comprehensive analysis of the literary text in the context of the Bible as a whole reveals a number of contradictory elements within the narrative, which contribute to the heterogeneity and multi-layeredness of the biblical text. These elements indicate that the story underwent an earlier form and that the rape of Dinah was deliberately included in the narrative of the patriarchs. This article aims to elucidate the rationale behind the deliberate incorporation of Dinah’s rape into the history of the patriarchs. The following three motives are posited as the reasons for this incorporation: 1) the conquest of Shechem as the first city in the land of Canaan; 2) the explanation of the curse of Simeon and Levi; 3) the preservation of the integrity and purity of the nation.
dc.identifier.citation"Verbum Vitae", 2024, T. 42, nr 4, s. 927-940
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/vv.17260
dc.identifier.issn2451-280X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8307
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectrape
dc.subjectDinah
dc.subjectuncleanness
dc.subjectGen 34
dc.subjectJacob
dc.titleThe Rape of Dinah: Motives for Incorporation in the History of the Patriarchs
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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