The Woman with the Alabaster Jar

 (from Amazon)

Margaret Starbird’s theological beliefs were profoundly shaken 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. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it, but instead found new and compelling evidence for the existence of the bride of Jesus--the same enigmatic woman who anointed him with precious unguent from her “alabaster jar.”

In this provocative book, Starbird draws her conclusions from an extensive study of history, heraldry, symbolism, medieval art, mythology, psychology, 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.

A couple of links

As most of us do at this time of year, I am trying to clean out my desk and make sense of all the little papers I have lying around.

While doing that today I came across these two websites written on a tiny scrap of paper.

I will have to look into them more later, but I really need to get rid of all of this paper.

www.gregtrimble.com

www.bmaf.org

Interview with Blackbeard Expert Baylus Brooks | The Pirates Port

Interview with author Baylus Brooks about discovering the answer to a pirate mystery centuries old, who was the real Blackbeard.

Interesting enough the answer was there for anyone to find who went looking for it.... in the LDS Church's vast genealogical library.

The theory was that Blackbeard the pirate grew up in Jamaica in the early 1700's, possibly with the last name Teach, or Thatch. Thanks to some digitized Jamaican Anglican Church records from that time period the mystery has been solved.

(The entire interview is excellent, but if just want to hear the Church mentioned listen to 4:00-7:00, and 12:30-13:30) 

Resentment politics, what is it?

Oh no, Senator Romney is at it again. 

Great video though breaking down how politicians deflect blame from themselves and put the blame onto others.

The pluck and luck of the Irish Saints: A brief history of the Church in Ireland

Another link to an article I need to read as soon as I have time.

https://www.ldsliving.com/the-pluck-and-luck-of-the-irish-saints/s/10502

Testimonies of Those Who Knew Him

 Finally here….

Joseph Smith Jr.
Testimonies of Those Who Knew Him.

Available now historyofthesaints.org

Meridian’s 15 Most-Read Articles in 2021

 (latterdaysaintmag.com)

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/meridians-15-most-read-articles-in-2021/

A New Biography of Enoch (and an excellent tool for the Book of Moses)

 (latterdaysaintmag.com)

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/a-new-biography-of-enoch-and-an-excellent-tool-for-the-book-of-moses/

The Book of Moses - From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days

 The book of Moses is canonized scripture spanning the epochs of Creation, Adam and Eve, Enoch, and Noah. Its content was revealed anciently by God to Moses and re-revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith in modern times. This book explores the origins and development of the Book of Moses, its ancient nuances, the linguistic features of its revelations, and how its sweeping visions and rich doctrines inspired and guided Joseph Smith and the early members of what would become The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in their pursuit of Zion.

https://deseretbook.com/p/rsc-book-of-moses-from-the-ancient-of-days-to-the-latter-days?variant_id=196210-hardcover&fbclid=IwAR0-W84cF47btwXT9cw3FwmhlNPEaSrX1YSujAt7GXzyGcNcQDrEnxO3LME

Moses 6–7 and the Book of Giants: Remarkable Witnesses of Enoch’s Ministry

 (by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw interpreterfoundation.org)

Abstract: The Book of Giants (BG), an Enoch text found in 1948 among the Dead Sea Scrolls, includes a priceless trove of stories about the ancient prophet and his contemporaries, including unique elements relevant to the Book of Moses Enoch account. Hugh Nibley was the first to discover in the BG a rare personal name that corresponds to the only named character in the Book of Moses besides Enoch himself, a finding that some non-Latter-day Saint Enoch scholars considered significant. Since Nibley’s passing, the growth of new scholarship on ancient Enoch texts has continued unabated. While Nibley’s pioneering research compared the names and roles of one character in Moses 6–7 and BG, scholars have now been able to examine the names and roles of nearly all of the prominent figures in the two books and analyze their respective accounts in more detail. Not only are the overall storylines of the two independent accounts more similar than could have imagined a few years ago, a series of recent studies have added substance to the claim that the specific resemblances of the Book of Giants to Moses 6–7—resemblances that are rare or absent elsewhere in Jewish tradition—are more numerous and significant than the resemblances of any other single ancient Enoch text—or, for that matter, to all of the most significant extant Enoch texts combined. Of particular note is new evidence in BG that relates to the Book of Moses account of Enoch’s gathering of Zion to divinely prepared cities and the ascent of his people to the presence of God.

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/moses-6-7-and-the-book-of-giants-remarkable-witnesses-of-enochs-ministry/

Considering the Cross — A Conversation with John Hilton III