The Da Vinci Code

As I had earlier indicated, I finished this entertaining book a couple of days ago and I'm going to enjoy researching it. I decided I needed to read this after 1) I started getting questions on the book at both church and work and 2) when I learned that Tom Hanks is going to star in the movie coming out based on the book and realized the questions are just going to continue. Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) will be directing and the screenplay will be written by Akiva Goldsmith who penned I, Robot, A Beautiful Mind, A Time to Kill, among others.

Tonight I purchased

Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine

which was written by Dr Bart D Ehrman who is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

and

Dr. Ben Witherington III's book The Gospel Code: Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci.

Dr. Witherington is Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary

and look forward to diving into all this a bit more deeply.

Leadership University has also accumulated a number of articles on the DaVinci Code here for those of you who don't run to amazon.com at the first hint of controversy.

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