The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine »

Roman Catholic scholar Margaret Starbird’s extensive study of history, symbolism, medieval art, mythology, psychology, and the Bible uncovers new and compelling evidence that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen. Starbird’s investigation of this suppressed history calls for a restoration of the feminine principle to its intended place in the canon of Christianity.

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.

Poem. To Our Lady

CHAPTER I. Pilgrim in Provence

CHAPTER II. Bound on Earth

CHAPTER III. The Dark Bride

CHAPTER IV. The Community Emmanuel

CHAPTER V. The Destroying Mountain

CHAPTER VI. Our Lady of the Quest

CHAPTER VII. The Fall of Babylon

CHAPTER VIII. Harrowing Hell

CHAPTER IX. Magdalene’s Legacy

CHAPTER X. The Lord of the Fishes

CHAPTER XI. A New Song

CHAPTER XII. The Sacred Reunion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author