This story has always “bothered” me. I don’t believe she was “raped,” or was prostituted. He took her, lay with her, spoke tenderly to her, delighted in her. He desired to have her for his wife. He loved her. He was willing to do “anything” to have her for his wife. What “bothers” me about this story, was that despite the willingness of Shechem, Hamer, and his famiily (male members) to be circumcized, Dinah’s brothers refused to accept their good intentions. Instead, Simeon and Levi slay all the Shechemites. I assume Dinah was brought back home. I think she may have “grieved” the loss of Shechem, and perhaps “angered at her brothers’ actions. Later in Genesis, when Jacob and all his family go to Egypt, Dinah is not mentioned. I wonder: did she die when the Shechemies were slain, or taken bake to her family, and died sometime later.
This story has always “bothered” me. I don’t believe she was “raped,” or was prostituted. He took her, lay with her, spoke tenderly to her, delighted in her. He desired to have her for his wife. He loved her. He was willing to do “anything” to have her for his wife. What “bothers” me about this story, was that despite the willingness of Shechem, Hamer, and his famiily (male members) to be circumcized, Dinah’s brothers refused to accept their good intentions. Instead, Simeon and Levi slay all the Shechemites. I assume Dinah was brought back home. I think she may have “grieved” the loss of Shechem, and perhaps “angered at her brothers’ actions. Later in Genesis, when Jacob and all his family go to Egypt, Dinah is not mentioned. I wonder: did she die when the Shechemies were slain, or taken bake to her family, and died sometime later.