Pseudo-Philo on Dinah as Job’s Wife

Pseudo-Philo

Biblical Antiquities 8.7–8

1st Century

And Jacob dwelt in [the land where his father had lived as an alien,] the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1), and Shechem the son of Hamor the Hurrite raped Dinah his daughter and humiliated her (Genesis 34:2). And the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, went in and killed the whole city of them by the sword (Genesis 34:25); and they took their sister Dinah…

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Pseudo-Philo

1st Century

Pseudo-Philo is the name given to the otherwise unknown, anonymous author of Biblical Antiquities, which may have been written in Hebrew but survives only in Latin. The text was originally attributed to Philo of Alexandria, but that has been disproven. Biblical Antiquities is a retelling of the biblical narrative filled with literary reworkings, including many traditions not found in other sources.

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