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In an era that has reclaimed many aspects of the feminine, Margaret Starbird s "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar" stands out as a courageous exploration of the scorned feminine in the Western religious tradition. But espousing the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene created a personal crisis for this Catholic scholar. In "The Goddess in the Gospels" the author tells how she was guided in her ever-deepening study of the New Testament and the gematria--number coding of the Greek alphabet--by an incredible series of synchronicities that mirror the inner and outer worlds and which reveal the Sacred Marriage of male and female--the hieros gamous--leading to her own personal redemption." (less)

In an era that has reclaimed many aspects of the feminine, Margaret Starbird s "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar" stands out as a courageous exploration of the scorned feminine in the Western religious tradition. But espousing the marriage (…more)