Reader’s Map for The Da Vinci Code

Reader’s Map for The Da Vinci Code...and after

See the availability of library copies of the book & audio-book, and place a reserve

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Books & other library materials about The Da Vinci Code

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Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, & Henry Lincoln. Holy Blood, Holy Grail. A best-seller in 1982, this book’s authors sued Dan Brown in British court for plagiarism – unsuccessfully

What do American Catholic bishops have to say?

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What Opus Dei has to say for itself

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What others have to say about Opus Dei

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Van Biema, David. "The Ways of Opus Dei.(Cover; Religion)(Cover story)." Time 167.17 (April 24, 2006): 52. General Reference Center Gold. Thomson Gale. Cambridge Public Library. 30 May. 2006
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The truth(s) about Mary Magdalene

Higgs, Liz Curtis. Mad Mary: a bad girl from Magdala, transformed at His appearing. 226 H536m. To begin with, she wasn’t a prostitute.

Chilton, Bruce. Mary Magdalene: a biography. 226.092 M369ch. But was she a hairdresser?

Meyer, Marvin. The Gospels of Mary: the secret tradition of Mary Magdalene, the companion of Jesus. 229.8 M575go. A serious work documenting some strange, old ideas.

Picknett, Lynn. Mary Magdalene: Christianity’s hidden goddess. 226.092 P587m. “Takes the Mormon alternative history of early Christianity a few steps further.”

Ehrman, Bart D. Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: the followers of Jesus in history and legend. 225.9 Eh89pe. Separates fact from fiction about such stories as Magdalene in France.

"An Inconvenient Woman; She witnessed the resurrection, then vanished, leaving popes and painters and now 'The Da Vinci Code' to tell her story. In search of the real Mary Magdalene.(Cover story)." Newsweek (May 29, 2006): 42. General Reference Center Gold. Thomson Gale. Cambridge Public Library. 30 May. 2006
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The Gnostic Gospels

Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. 273 P146g. A scholarly but short & accessible book that stimulated wide interest in these long obscure texts.

Jenkins, Philip. Hidden Gospels: how the search for Jesus lost its way. 229.8 J418h. Argues that various non-canonical texts are “important sources for what the popular enthusiasm for them tells us about the interest groups who seek to use them today, about the mass media and how religion is packaged as popular culture…”

The first Christians

“From Jesus to Christ: the first Christians.” Senior producer & director, William Cran. DVD 232.9 F925pbs. A “Frontline” program co-produced with WGBH, etc. & et al. “Drawing upon new & sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation’s leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back 2000 years to the time & place where Jesus once lived & preached.”

Rousseau, Philip. The Early Christian Centuries. 270.1 R762ea. Never mind Gnostics; how about Monophysites? And Pro-Chalcedonians!? Sympathetic portraits of real conflicts.

Davies, J.G. The Early Christian Church. 281 D287e. Concentrates on the “struggles & accomplishments” of the church in its first five centuries, with particular emphasis on art & architecture.

Eusebius of Caesarea. The Ecclesiastical History, in 2v. 880.8 L822 Eus 1&2. Eusebius dodged persecution and brushes with heresy to become the Father of Church History, and this work remains “the principle source for the history of Christianity from the Apostolic Age to his own day.” (But he wasn’t much of a stylist, so ignore the Greek & just read the translation.)

White, L. Michael. From Jesus to Christianity. 270.1 W584fr. Beginning with the world of Jesus and extending through the first four generations of Christians, White examines “the role of women in the church, the diversity of beliefs among Christian communities, the Gnostic influences, and the political disputes that raged over which books would ultimately be included in the New Testament.”

Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Scriptures. 229.92 L899eh; Lost Christianities. 229 Eh89L. Scriptures contains translations of many relevant texts – gospels, epistles, apocalypses – that didn’t make it into the New Testament. Christianities tries to make sense of them, and argues that the winners not only excluded these apocrypha, but “rewrote the history of the controversy.”

Lane Fox, Robin. Pagans and Christians. 270.1 F833p. Lane Fox’s once controversial volume goes light on the usual stuff – dates & doctrines – to describe what common people felt about the long, slow change in the Roman Empire’s religion.

Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: the social world of the Apostle Paul. 270.1 M471f. An innovative “social description” of the Pauline communities. (“What’s that mean?”) “What it felt like to be an ‘ordinary Christian’ in the cities of the Mediterranean world in the middle if the first century.”

The Rise of Christianity, ed. by Don Nardo. 270.1 R492. A well-organized collection of essays & book chapters, some of them classics, dealing with a number of topics in early Christianity and suitable for young adults as well.

Segal, Alan F. Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman world. 296.8 Se37r. Taking a social science approach to the period 200 B.C. – 200 A.D., comprising the rise of Christianity & rabbinic Judaism, Segal emphasizes the continuities between the two.

Wilken, Robert Louis. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought. 270.1 W651sp. Wilken argues for the importance of the Scriptures, rather than Greek influences, on primitive Christian theology, and on the spirituality reflected in poetry & art.

What else has the Priory of Sion been up to?

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The Holy Grail

Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch’s Mythology. 291 B871my. See Chapters XIX-XXI under “King Arthur and His Knights.” A brief & pleasing introduction from a famous, if old-fashioned, book.

Barber, Richard W. The Holy Grail: imagination and belief. 398.4 B233ho. How the meaning of the Grail, like the Grail itself, has been lost.

Griffin, Justin. The Holy Grail: the legend, the history, the evidence. 398.3 G875h. A brief but sober introduction to the identity of the Grail, and related matters.

Leonardo Da Vinci & “The Last Supper”

Steinberg, Leo. Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper. 759.5 L553st. Asserts, among other things, that the painting does not represent a single moment in time. “Original to the point of provocation.”

Kinney, Harrison. The Last Supper of Leonardo Da Vinci: an account of its re-creation by Lumen Martin Winter. 759.5 L553k. Winter visited Leonardo’s home & made extensive use of the latter’s notes before completing his own commission to reproduce the painting full size for a small Florida museum.

About.com. Web pages dedicated to the art controversies, and other controversies. <http://altreligion.about.com/library/davinci/bl_davincicode5.htm/>

Rennes-le-Chateau…

Lincoln, Henry. The Holy Place: discovering the eighth wonder of the ancient world. 944 L638h.

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…a map…

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…and other chateaux

Levron, Jacques. Chateaux of the Loire; with 203 heliogravure illustrations; cover painting by Dignimont. 914.45 L579c. “A beautiful book about a beautiful part of the world.”

The Templars

Naudon, Paul. The Secret History of Freemasonry: its origins & connection to the Knights Templar. 366.1 N222se. Despite the whispering tone of the title, this is one of the few reliable books on the Poor Knights of the Temple – but it’s not easy going.

The book reviews

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The Skeptic

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The National Catholic Reporter

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America

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Boston Herald

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The Skeptical Inquirer

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Da Vinci Code Read-a-likes

Silva, Daniel. The Confessor . (2003) When a writer working on an expose about the Vatican’s association with the Nazis is assassinated, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon and the new pope each undertake investigations that lead down a road of secrets that others would rather keep silent.

Perdue, Lewis. Daughter of God. (2000) Pandemonium breaks out when evidence that the Catholic Church executed a female messiah during the 4^th century is stolen.

Harris, Robert. Enigma. (1995) Academic Thomas Jericho is called into action at Bletchley Park, the British code breaking center during WWII, to solve the latest Nazi code, Enigma.

King, Ross. Ex-libris. (1998) Bookseller Isaac Inchbold is hired to restore a ravaged library and a missing manuscript he must find begins to play a far greater role in his life that he ever imagined possible.

Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Flanders Panel. (1994) An inscription hidden in a 15^th century Flemish painting reveals a murder mystery for a young art expert to solve.

Ludlum, Robert. The Gemini Contenders. (1976) Twins search for the mysterious document their father had to leave behind while escaping from fascist Italy in 1939.

Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian. (2005) Set during the early 20^th century, a young graduate student goes on a search that takes him across the secret monastic libraries and archives of Eastern Europe while attempting to find his missing advisor, whom he knows was taken by Dracula.

Mosse, Kate. Labyrinth. (2006) Volunteer Alice discovers strange artifacts in a cave at an archaeological site, which lead her back to Alais, a 13^th century woman entrusted by her father with the secret of the Holy Grail.

Khoury, Raymond. The Last Templar. (2006) Archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI anti-terrorist agent Sean Reilly join forces in an investigation after an artifact is stolen from the Vatican collection by four horsemen decked out as Templar Knights.

Caldwell, Ian & Dustin Thomason. The Rule of Four. (2004) While chaos consumes the campus, a Princeton student only has 24 hours left to complete his thesis, which attempts to solve a 15^th century allegory filled with ciphers and algorithms.

Sierra, Javier. The Secret Supper . (2006) Father Agostino Leyre is sent to investigate whether da Vinci’s The Last Supper contains a coded message.

Berry, Steve. The Templar Legacy . (2006) A race is on to solve the ancient mysteries surrounding the Templar riches and the stakes for the civilized world are higher than anyone can imagine.

Kaewert, Julie Wallin. Unbound. (1997) When Plumtree Press decides to publish a book revealing the secret messages in a famous novel, suddenly all those involved with the book are fair game for someone who will stop at nothing to prevent the book and its shocking content from reaching stores.

The movie reviews

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“Newsweek:”

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“The Boston Phoenix:”

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The soundtrack!