The Gospel Code: Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Da Vinci

Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code raises a controversial question. Did the early church suppress ancient documents revealing long-buried secrets about Jesus? Witherington takes you back to the time following Christ's death to reveal what we can really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the canonical Gospels, and their Gnostic rivals. 252 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.

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Reviewed by Philana Crouch (Berrien Springs, MI), June 06, 2006

This is the best book dealing with the issues of Dan Brown's book out there. It is scholarly and well researched. The author does a good job of being fair and balanced.

Reviewed by Molly Kaplan (Woodbridge, VA), May 11, 2006

Dr. Witherington's book was one of the first of many to appear rebutting the DaVinci Code. It is also the best that I have read so far. He does a wonderful job of explaining the errors presented as facts in Dan Brown's book as well as acknowledging that Mr. Brown did get some things right. Too many of the other books on the market fail to acknowledge that our knowledge of our own history is murky at best and rarely taught to the average church member. This one of the reasons that the book has made such a sensation. I thought that Dr. Witherington did an excellent job in explaining not only the history surrounding the books misconceptions, but also how our basic doctrine and tenets of faith evolved. I always recommend this book to anyone who has read the DaVinci Code and is searching for the truth behind the fiction.

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