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 existence... (read more)

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Member Reviews

  • 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.

    Coal wrote this review Monday, September 1 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Tanya T
    • Rated 5 stars

    A book written with love and insight.

    Tanya T wrote this review Saturday, December 29 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Loreto V
    • Rated 0 stars

    And the legend of the Holy Grail finally became true, to me. Wonderful essay on Jesus and Mary Magdelen, and Sarah, of Saintes Maries de la Mer. Please do not compare this book with the Da Vinci Code.

    Loreto V wrote this review Friday, November 16 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • KimRay
    • Rated 5 stars

    A facinating read...this offers so many possibilities about the nature of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and offers proof that there were, at the very least, people who believed that the feminine side of divinity should never have been discarded from modern Western religion.

    KimRay wrote this review Tuesday, November 6 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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