Books on The Davinci Code
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Not really a very good book, and certainly not very well written. On the other hand there's no denying that it captured the zeitgeist of the early twenty first century.
The ideas are not original. They startied off as a French novel, then as the "non-fiction" Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (see books on the Holy Grail). In fact the most interesting material - for example about early Christianity, Gnosticism, schisms, the attempted suppression of inconvenient text, and the questions around Mary Magdelene are all well known to Church historians.
Books like this seem to have become the prefered vehicle by which recent Church scholarship is eventually leaked to the public - mixed up with interesting if improbable conspiracy theories.
Of course theologians could have made the underlying factual material public themselves but for various reasons they prefered not to. The run-away success of the Da Vinci Code could be regarded as proof of the adage that there is no force as strong as an idea whose time has come.
Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking
Darrell L. Bock
The author concentrates on the 325 years or so after the birth of Christ
distinguishing the good fun from genuine interesting historical elements
of Church history.
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
Bart D. Ehrman
Good stuff.
The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code
Richard Abanes
De-Coding Da Vinci
Amy Welborn
The Da Vinci Hoax
Carl E. Olson
The Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code
Michael Haag
Da Vinci Code Decoded
Martin Lunn
Solving the Da Vinci Code Mystery ;
Brandon Gilvin
Secrets of the Widow's Son
Dan Burstein
The Key to the Da Vinci Code
Stewart Ferris
The Da Vinci Code and the Secrets of the Temple
Robin Griffith-Jones
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