The Goddess in the Gospels
Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine
Inner Traditions/Bear & Company · Print & ebook · October 1, 1998
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A study-minded rereading of gospel material through a sacred-feminine framework.
- Genres
- Goddess Spirituality, New Testament Biography, Religion & Gender
- Published
- Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, October 1, 1998
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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.
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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.
Sacred Reframing
A study-minded rereading of gospel material through a sacred-feminine framework.
Come here for
- Reframed gospel reading
- Sacred-feminine lens
Expect
- Instructional, interpretive prose
- Faith-and-scholarship crosscurrents
Where it sits
| Goddess Spirituality | 43% |
|---|---|
| Religion & Gender | 33% |
| New Testament Biography | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ancient History
- Goddess Spirituality
- Spirituality
- Authors
- Margaret Starbird
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Published
- October 1, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Ancient History