TY  - BOOK
AU  - Witherington,Ben
TI  - The Gospel code: novel claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Da Vinci 
SN  - 083083267X
AV  - PS3552.R685434 D339 2004
U1  - ARCH YNDC 813.54 W823G 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - InterVarsity Press
KW  - Brown, Dan,
KW  - Mary Magdalene,
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Christian saints in literature
KW  - Christianity in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and indexes; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -