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Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

Von: Bart D. Ehrman
Gesprochen von: Bart D. Ehrman
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A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has sold in its millions. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that the historical information in the book 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 eighty contending Gospels—the only four that stressed that Jesus was divine? And did Christ really marry Mary Magdalene?

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"His is a documentary approach, avoiding speculation and theory. This tone distinguishes the book from many other responses to Brown's novel that uphold a particular theological agenda....This is a very readable treatment of some difficult themes." (Publishers Weekly)
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I had just recently read "The holy blood and the holy grail", "the dead sea scrolls deception", the apocrypha, the gnostic gospels and a couple of highly enjoyable recent scholarly works on early Christianity. The prospect of diving into this book, hence, got me quite excited but I was quickly disappointed by the approach and the quality of this work. This was the first book in my recent reading about early Christianity where I essentially didn't learn anything new.
A lot is plainly banal, especially when the author reasons on why this or that has to be interpreted in this or that way, so often coming around with the jovial argument from authority (I am the historian here). Much of the reasoning is circular, like: Brown's characters claim that documents concerning an intimate relationship between Jesus and the Magdalene were withheld and destroyed by the early church, Ehrman: it is not true that the two had an intimate relationship because we have no early sources that would say so - seriously?? This is lazy thinking. The book is full of such examples, there was hardly a single minute in between that did not provoke a counter argument in my mind which the author did not take into account himself. That's not unbiased or good scholarship, and I really disliked the book.
Also, it hardly deals with or even mentions Brown's sources (clearly the two controversial titles mentioned in the first sentence of this review). Overall very disappointing. Not even the audio is well done, you regularly hear the author munching, swallowing, turning pages or whatever it was that created these unpleasant noises.

A poor effort

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