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| - | '''Merlin Stone''' is a sculptor and professor of art and art history, perhaps best-known for her [[feminist]] book, ''[[When God Was a Woman]]''. | + | # An historic region of the [[Middle East]], roughly equivalent to [[Palestine]]. |
| - | + | # A grandson of [[Noah]]. | |
| - | ==Biography== | + | #*: And '''Canaan''' begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. |
| - | Merlin Stone became interested in [[archaeology]] and ancient religions from her study of ancient art. She taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1958 to 1967 she worked as a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions. | + | |
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| - | She spent a decade on research before writing the book published in the UK as ''[[The Paradise Papers]]'' and then in the U.S. as ''[[When God Was a Woman]]'' (1976). It describes her theory of how the Hebrews suppressed allegedly goddess-based religions practiced in [[Canaan]] and how their reaction to what she asserts as being the existing [[Matriarchy|matriarchial]] and [[matrilineal]] societal structures shaped [[Judaism]] and, thus, [[Christianity]]. Her other major work, ''[[Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood]]'' (ISBN# 0-8070-6751-2) collects stories, myths, and prayers involving goddess-figures from a wide variety of world religions, ancient and otherwise. Stone's hypotheses are radical and challenging to the accepted views of antiquity, and as such they remain controversial. She is the author of numerous short stories, book reviews, and essays, including "3,000 Years of Racism." | + | |
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| - | Stone's book [[When God Was a Woman]] had a profound effect on the emerging Goddess Culture of the 1970s and 80s in the US. It spoke clearly and simply to women raised in traditional Judeo-Christian traditions, and made the concept of a female deity accessible. | + | |
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| - | == Books == | + | |
| - | * The paradise papers : the suppression of women's rites | + | |
| - | * ''[[When God Was a Woman]]'', 2 reviews | + | |
| - | * Quand Dieu était femme : à la découverte de la grande déesse. | + | |
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| - | * Als Gott eine Frau war. Die Geschichte der Ur- Religion unserer Kulturen. | + | |
| - | * Eens was God als Vrouw belichaamd. | + | |
| - | * Ancient mirrors of womanhood: Our goddess and heroine heritage | + | |
| - | * Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Volume 2 | + | |
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- An historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
- A grandson of Noah.
- And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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