Shechem is the first city mentioned in Bible; when Abraham and Jacob visited it, the city was a stronghold of an empire ruled from Egypt. It was during this early era at the very beginning of what ...

Dinah, Jacob's daughter, is assaulted by Shechem, a local prince, in a story from the Bible. Shechem offers to marry her as restitution, and Jacob's sons agree if all the men in Shechem's city are ...