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Author Ehrman, Bart D.

Title Truth and fiction in The Da Vinci code : a historian reveals what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine / Bart D. Ehrman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 207 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents pt. 1. The Emperor Constantine, the New Testament, and the other Gospels. The role of Constantine in early Christianity -- The discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library -- The other Gospels -- Constantine and the formation of the New Testament canon -- pt. 2. Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The historical sources for Jesus -- The historical Jesus of our sources -- Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and marriage -- The feminine in early Christianity
Summary A biblical historian examines the history of the early Christian church that forms the background for "The Da Vinci Code," pointing out inaccuracies in the novel and providing an introduction to biblical scholarship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Brown, Dan, 1964- Da Vinci code
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 -- In literature
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 -- Religion
Mary Magdalene, Saint -- In literature
Jesus Christ -- In literature.
SUBJECT Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 fast
Jesus Christ fast
Mary Magdalene, Saint fast
Da Vinci code (Brown, Dan) fast
Subject Christian saints in literature.
Christianity and literature.
Christianity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Christian saints in literature
Christianity and literature
Christianity in literature
Literature
Religion
Form Electronic book
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