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When God Was a Woman is the U.S. title of a 1976 book by sculptor and art historian Merlin Stone. It was published earlier in the United Kingdom as The Paradise Papers: The Suppression of Women's Rites .
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 international Goddess movement of the 1970s and 1980s. [3]
When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone (1976) Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy (1976) Women, Money and Power, Phyllis Chesler with Emily Jane Goodman (1976) "Women's Liberation Builds Strong Bodies in Many Ways", Secret Storm (ca. 1976) [337] "Women Talk Back", Secret Storm (ca. 1976) [338]
Goddess Remembered is a 1989 Canadian documentary on the Goddess movement and feminist theories surrounding Goddess worship in Old European culture according to Marija Gimbutas, and Merlin Stone's 1976 book When God Was a Woman.
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The core of the book lies in chapters 5, "Archaeological Evidence for Folk Religions in Ancient Israel", 6 "The Goddess Asherah and Her Cult", and 7 "Asherah, Women's Cults, and 'Official Yahwism '". These chapters describe polytheistic religion in ancient Israel, which, Dever points out, was the reality in the religious lives of most people.
Kirkus Reviews reviewed this book and somewhat liked it, saying, "A high-concept pitch, a potboiler on the page, and a protagonist to cheer for, but the authors do not quite tie it all together." [5] Woman of God was number one in hardcover fiction category in the New York Times Best Sellers list when it first appeared on that list, on October ...
God Is a Woman (French: Dieu est une femme) is a 2023 documentary film co-written and directed by Andres Peyrot, at his feature film debut. A co-production between France, Switzerland and Panama, it premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival .