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The Gospel code : novel claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Da Vinci / Ben Witherington III. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, [(c)2004.Description: 208 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 083083267X
  • 9780830832675
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN49.G677 2004
  • PN49.W823.G677 2004
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Contents:
A novel idea? ; No weddings and a funeral Tell me the old, old story His story, history and the canon's story Mary Magdalene and the new gnosticism Something about Mary Those in the know Doubting Thomas Did the canon misfire? ; Consulting the canon professors Reading Borg again for the first time What if God was one of us? ; Postscript: truth decay in the twenty-first century.
Summary: In plain language that any interested reader can follow, the author, a New Testament scholar, responds to fictionalized claims in The Da Vinci Code that there exist documents that reveal secrets about Jesus, secrets long suppressed by the church and other religious institutions. He takes us back to the early centuries after Jesus' death and tells us what we can really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the canonical Gospels and their Gnostic rivals.
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A novel idea? ; No weddings and a funeral Tell me the old, old story His story, history and the canon's story Mary Magdalene and the new gnosticism Something about Mary Those in the know Doubting Thomas Did the canon misfire? ; Consulting the canon professors Reading Borg again for the first time What if God was one of us? ; Postscript: truth decay in the twenty-first century.

In plain language that any interested reader can follow, the author, a New Testament scholar, responds to fictionalized claims in The Da Vinci Code that there exist documents that reveal secrets about Jesus, secrets long suppressed by the church and other religious institutions. He takes us back to the early centuries after Jesus' death and tells us what we can really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the canonical Gospels and their Gnostic rivals.

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