The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail
 

The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail

by Margaret Starbird


Margaret Starbird’s theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a book that dared to suggest that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen and that their descendants carried on his holy bloodline in Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it, but instead found new and compelling evidence for the... (read more)

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Coal
  • Rated 5 stars

Whilst I really enjoyed this book and would feel compelled to recommend it to anyone researching the historical Jesus, I really missed Margaret Starbird’s lyrical writing style that she uses in The Goddess in the Gospels : Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine. I found The Woman with the Alabaster Jar a very difficult read, though ultimately worth the perseverance for the amount of information that can be gleaned from it.

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  • rajesh k

    rajesh k said:

    Should i read this?

    posted Friday, March 28 2008
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