The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Starbird, Margaret (1993)

In this provocative book, Starbird draws her conclusions from an extensive study of history, heraldry, synbolism, medieval art, mythology, psycholigy, and the Bible itself. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar is a quest for the forgotten feminine-in the hope that its return will help restore a healthy balance to planet Earth. Margaret Starbirds is a seeker after truth, not a defender of doctrine. She recognizes the orthodoxy is orthodox because it won and necessarily because it is true. She seeks to recover the long-suppressed, and infrequently emotionally oppopsed, feminine side of the Christian story. Hers is an exciting narrative probing regions of thought long neglected. Magdelen, the Great Mary, emerges with new power.