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“The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ”

The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince (Touchstone, 1998 first edition) is a book proposing the types of relationships had between Jesus, Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist. It was was reissued in 2004, as a result of interest in author Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code.” The […]

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Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman wrote Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code : A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine and teaches religious studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ehrman can place Mary of Nazareth in her historical and modern-day context.

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Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels is the author of the best-selling Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Random House, 2003) and a professor of religion at Princeton University. She has written a number of well-received books on gnosticism, an early Christian movement considered heretical, and early Christianity. Additionally, she is the author of  The Origin of Satan (1996).

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Karen L. King

Karen L. King is the author of The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Polebridge Press, 2003). A scholar of gnosticism, the body of nonorthodox early Christian teachings, and a professor of ecclesiastical history, she appeared on a Nov. 3, 2003, ABC television special exploring the claims of the novel about Jesus […]

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“The Da Vinci Code”

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today has compiled a number of articles it has run that are critical of The Da Vinci Code‘s portrayal of early Christianity.

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