Da Vinci Code

Controversy over the Bible has given way to controversy over a hidden code that somehow turns the Bible inside out. Catholics are up in arms, courts are clogged with cases of plagiarism and moviegoers and book readers are loving every minute of it. Look at the hubbub over this amazing work in the news stories and blog entries below

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The Da Vinci Code
By: Dan Brown
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An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.

As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece?from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.

The Da Vinci Code: the Illustrated Edition
By: Dan Brown
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Breaking the mould of traditional suspence novels, The Da Vinci Code is simultaneously lightening paced, intelligent and intricately layered with remarakble research and detail.

Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking
By: Darrell L. Bock
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Many who have read the New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code have questions that arise from seven codes-expressed or implied-in Dan Brown's book. In Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking, Darrell Bock, Ph.D., responds to the novelist's claims using central ancient texts and answers the following questions:

Who was Mary Magdalene? Was Jesus Married? Would Jesus Being Single be Un-Jewish? Do the So-Called Secret Gnostic Gospels Help Us Understand Jesus? What Is the Remaining Relevance of The Da Vinci Code?

Darrell Bock's research uncovers the origins of these codes by focusing on the 325 years immediately following the birth of Christ, for the claims of The Da Vinci Code rise or fall on the basis of things emerging from this period. Breaking the Da Vinci Code, now available in trade paper, distinguishes fictitious entertainment from historical elements of the Christian faith. For by seeing these differences, one can break the Da Vinci code.

The Books the Church Suppressed: Fiction and Truth in "The Da Vinci Code"
By: Michael Green
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A fascinating discussion of the Canon, the books accepted as divinely inspired, with answers to issues raised by The Da Vinci Code. (20060501)

The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code
By: Sharan Newman
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Millions have been enthralled by The Da Vinci Code's fascinating historical speculations-and the blockbuster novel's audience has also made bestsellers of several books offering to separate the facts from the fiction. This comprehensive, encyclopedic volume is written by an acclaimed medievalist-and takes an objective, history-based approach to the phenomenon and the questions it has raised.

The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code gives easy-to-find, clear answers about the people, places, and events that play roles in Dan Brown's tantalizing thriller in a lively, encyclopedic format-shedding new light on some of the deepest mysteries of the Dark Ages.

Further, the author has visited all of the sites in France and England which are settings in The Da Vinci Code, offering unprecedented insight into these locations--for armchair travellers, or for fans who wish to go and visit these sites themselves.

Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Kn...
By: Bart D. Ehrman
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In his staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown states up front that the historical information in the The Da Vinci Code is all factually accurate. But is this claim true? As historian Bart D. Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, The Da Vinci Code is filled with numerous historical mistakes.
Did the ancient church engage in a cover-up to make the man Jesus into a divine figure? Did Emperor Constantine select for the New Testament--from some 80 contending Gospels--the only four Gospels that stressed that Jesus was divine? Was Jesus Christ married to Mary Magdalene? Did the Church suppress Gospels that told the secret of their marriage? Bart Ehrman thoroughly debunks all of these claims. But the book is not merely a laundry list of Brown's misreading of history. Throughout, Ehrman offers a wealth of fascinating background information--all historically accurate--on early Christianity. He describes, for instance, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ; outlines in simple terms how scholars of early Christianity determine which sources are most reliable; and explores the many other Gospels that have been found in the last half century. In his engaging book, Ehrman separates fact from fiction, the historical realities from the flights of literary fancy. Anyone who would like to know the truth about the beginnings of Christianity and the real truth behind The Da Vinci Code will find this book riveting.

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First line: A snow-bearded , elderly man is seated at the head of a refectory table, close to a fire, with his head bowed. Review: The Rose Labyrinth, by Titania Hardie, follows the same path laid down by The Da Vinci Code and even The Memorist. This book, like the others, weaves in past mysteries with contemporary events, linking characters to legendary figures of England?s history. In this case, the links are made to John Dee, one of Queen Elizabeth?s trusted advisors during her reign in t • London On The Cheap
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