Dinah Li - Brightlocal News
The story of dinah recounts an episode in which the girl (or young woman) goes out to see the “daughters of the land†(genesis 34:1) but is raped, seduced, and/or abducted by shechem, a hivite … Dinah, in the old testament (genesis 30:21; 46:15), daughter of jacob by leah;
Dinah was the only daughter of jacob and leah, and the rabbis present her as possessing many positive qualities, as was fitting for the daughter of the progenitors of the israelite nation. Who was the canaanite woman? According to one tradition, she was dinah, who was thus named because she had been violated by a canaanite. After her rape, she was afraid that no one would …
