Truth Trumps "DaVinci Code" Fiction
Truth is More Fascinating Than "The DaVinci Code"
Real Counter-Histories May Be More Subversive Than The Best Seller
(March 10, 2006)
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With almost three years on the New York Times bestseller list, author Dan Brown’s tale has become a national obsession. It’s spawned countless theological debates, television documentaries, news stories, book club discussions, and even lawsuits. The movie version is about to open nationally.
While questions raised by the book may be news to readers, it‘s old hat to scholars studying the New Testament and early Christianity. “In fact, much of the scholarly work on the historical Jesus, the history of the Biblical canon, and the roles of the women of the Jesus movement, may prove more subversive and challenging than anything dreamed up by Brown in his best-selling novel,” says Jacobs.
Jacobs will distill fact from fiction and share some of these challenging scholarly counter-histories generated about Jesus and the early Christian movement in his lecture “Counter-History and the DaVinci Code” at this month’s Citizens University Committee breakfast meeting, Wednesday, March 22, 2006, at 7:30 a.m. at the University Extension Building, 1160 University Avenue, Riverside. Tickets are $15 for members ($20 for non-members) and include a deluxe breakfast buffet. For tickets contact Robin Clark (951) 827-5184.
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