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Merlin Stone (born Marilyn Jacobson,^[1] September 27, 1931 – February 23, 2011) was an American author, sculptor, and professor of art and art history. She was an important thinker of the feminist theology and Goddess^[2] movements and is known for her book When God Was a Woman.

Biography

Merlin Stone was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. She attended Public School #217 and Erasmus Hall High School, where she graduated in 1949 with a Metallic Art Medal Award.^[3]

She became interested in archaeology and ancient religions from her study of ancient art.

From 1958 to 1967, she worked as a sculptor, exhibiting widely and executing numerous commissions.^[3]

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 goddess-worshipping religions practiced in Canaan and how their reaction to what she says were existing matriarchial and matrilineal societal structures shaped Judaism and thus Christianity.^[4] Her theory builds on the ideas of Robert Graves,^[5] but rather than starting from his work, Stone gathered material from the "libraries, museums, universities, and excavation sites of the United States, Europe and the Near East."^[6] She observed within these materials "the sexual and religious bias of many of the erudite scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries",^[7] and challenges many of their conclusions, raising doubts about the criticisms of Graves's theories.

Her other major work, Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, 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. She is the author of numerous short stories, book reviews, and essays, including 3,000 Years of Racism.

Stone's book When God Was a Woman had a profound effect on the emerging Goddess Culture of the 1970s and 1980s in the US.^[8] She was featured in the 1989 documentary Goddess Remembered.^[9]

She was diagnosed with pseudobulbar palsy in 2005^[1] and died of dementia complications in 2011.^[10]

Works

Written works

Books

Pamphlets

Articles

Contributions

Audio-visual

See also

References

Footnotes

1. ^¹{{Cite book|title=Merlin Stone Remembered: Her Life and Works|last=Axelrod|first=David B.|last2=Orenstein|first2=Gloria|last3=Thomas|first3=Carol F.|last4=Schneir|first4=Lenny|last5=Stone|first5=Merlin|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|year=2014|isbn=9780738744001|location=|pages=|chapter=Merlin Stone Timeline}}
2. ^¹{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Merlin Stone|encyclopedia=Feminist Writers|publisher=St. James Press|location=Detroit|date=1996|editor-last=Kester-Shelton|editor-first=Pamela|isbn=978-1558622173}}
3. ^According to the author's information on the 1976 Harcourt edition of When God Was a Woman.
4. ^Stone (1976) p. xiii.
5. ^Stone (1976) p. 23
6. ^Stone (1976) p. xvi
7. ^Stone (1976) p. xviii
8. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=10 November 2014|title=Merlin Stone Remembered|url=|department=Book reviews|journal=Publishers Weekly|volume=261|issue=45|pages=55|via=}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/1028|title=Women and Spirituality: The Goddess Trilogy|last=|first=|date=|website=Kino Lorber|access-date=5 February 2018}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150424949945335&id=1029487486|title=Requiem for Merlin Stone|last=Budapest|first=Zsuzsanna|authorlink=Zsuzsanna Budapest|date=25 February 2011|website=Facebook|access-date=}}