Truth and fiction in The Da Vinci code : a historian reveals what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine /

Ehrman, Bart D,

Truth and fiction in The Da Vinci code : a historian reveals what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine / [print] Bart D. Ehrman. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2006. - 207 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Pt. 1. The Emperor Constantine, the New Testament, and the other Gospels. The role of Constantine in early Christianity -- The discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library -- The other Gospels -- Constantine and the formation of the New Testament canon -- part 2. Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The historical sources for Jesus -- The historical Jesus of our sources -- Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and marriage -- The feminine in early Christianity.



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PS3552 PS3552.E33.T788 2006