Levi

Levi was a son of Jacob and the traditional ancestor of the tribe of Levi. The story of violence at Shechem is attached to Levi and Simeon, while later tradition gives the Levites priestly and religious functions.

Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent places Levi within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and court politics and dynastic power.