Pemikiran Yahudi Kejadian 34:2: Dirshuni I

Dinah was like someone mute, as it says "Dinah went out... to see" and not to hear. And further: "And he slept with her, and violated her" (Bereishit 34:2) and it doesn't write "And Dinah cried out". And would you have thought for a moment that Dinah did not cry out? She was like someone mute, that from the pain and from the shame she was quieted and struck dumb.

In the beit midrash of Bruriah they were divided on whether this was consensual. There are those who said it was nonconsensual, since the verse says "And he took her" (ibid.) - it teaches that Shchem abducted her. And it further says "And he bedded her" - "her", and not "with her" [lit. "and lay to her", not "lay with her"], to teach that he forced himself on her. And it further says, "And he afflicted her" - literally. And there are those who say it was consensual, as it says "And he took her" - taking is the language of marriage, like it is said "When a man takes a woman" (Devarim 24:1). And it further says "And he bedded her" - literally. And it further says "And he afflicted her" [וַיִּעַנֶּהָ] - to teach that he came to her at her time. If so, that he answered [שענה] her - that she would ask and ask her brothers and they would push her and mock her, until Shchem came and answered her.