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.