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The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.9
EAN: 9781879181557
ISBN: 187918155X
Label: Bear & Company
Manufacturer: Bear & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: Bear & Company
Release Date: October 01, 1998
Studio: Bear & Company
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Editorial Review: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.
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Rating:  - Passable
While I liked the basic premise of this book, I just could not come to terms with many of the personal issues that the author spoke about. I wish that Margaret Starbird had left this book as a treatise on hieros gamos and merely explored the concept rather than delving into "synchronicities" and "personal redemption". I had enjoyed reading The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail but this book didn't really cut it. In fact, The Rozabal Line, has given a very interesting ... Read More
Rating:  - Begin your spiritual journey
This is the book that changed my life. I read it and I began my spiritual spiral towards feminist religion. Margaret Starbird was a Roman Catholic 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.. Her theological beliefs were profoundly shaken, so she set out to refute the book, but instead found evidence for the existence of the bride of Jesus. Mary Magdalene ... Read More
Rating:  - Frightening Book -- shame on Dan Brown for referencing her work
Starbird's The Goddess in the Gospels is a frightening book in it's near-zero use of reason and reasonableness.
The issues in this book are legion, much like the demons in Luke 8:30. But, because I just tied the word "legion" from a Bible passage about demon possession to her book, can I then make the conclusion that Starbird is possessed? No, I cannot. I am just making that connection up. Yet, that's what Starbird does throughout this book. She uses numerology (Greek "Gematria") to draw ... Read More
Rating: - Starbird as Scholar
Occasionally, when criticisms of Margaret Starbird's work appear, they tend to be uninformed.
Margaret Starbird is a scholar of comparative literature, with a focus on scriptural texts and Medieval traditions. Her academic training is impressive. She completed both a BA and MA in Comparative Literature and German at the University of Maryland. After that, she studied for a year on a Fulbright Student Fellowship to Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. She then pursued Doctoral studies in ... Read More
Rating:  - Highly disappointing
After reading "The Da Vinci Code," I started tracking down Dan Brown's sources, mostly to verify if his research is as sound as he presents it to be. Among the books mentioned were Margaret Starbird's two books dealing with Mary Magdalene. Knowing nothing about Ms. Starbird and judging by the title of "The Goddess in the Gospels," I expected a scholarly, historical and exegetical work which would shed light on biblical material.
Instead, I waded through page after page of painfully atrocious ... Read More
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