Dinah, Jacob's only daughter, shares her perspectives on the origins of many modern religious practices and sexual politics, imparting the lessons she has learned from her father's wives. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. Told in Dinah's voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions...

From one of the world's most popular writers comes a retelling of the biblical story of Elijah that follows in the tradition of Paulo Coelho's international bestseller The alchemist. Based on an event that awakened the author to the reality that tragedy is not punishment but challenge, La quinta montaña teaches without being didactic, inspires without being sanctimonious.