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More on a silly speculation popularized by a bestseller. It will lend itself to some nutty horror movies (in last one I saw they recovered Jesus' DNA to make a clone).

Was Jesus married? Is it possible that what religious history and scriptures call the Holy Grail—the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper—was not the chalice that held his blood, but rather a symbol representing the woman who bore his child?

Sian Gibby, Slate: Mrs. God

Earlier The Da Vinci Code: Mrs. Jesus

Richard Evans Lee
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Hi, I didn't see the documentary, "Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci" but I did read the book "The Da Vinci Code" after hearing a sermon about it at my local Unitarian church. I may be biased since I really like this minister and hold him in high regard as a person who is well informed, intelligent, open minded and willing to say what he truly thinks even when it runs counter to what he might be expected to believe given his role as a church leader. The sermon he gave (though, unfortunately it's sparsely footnoted) makes me think that there is more substantial evidence behind some of these alternate theories than seem to be given due in the documentary or Mr. Gibby's review of it. One example is that, according to the sermon, the gospel of Phillip does make reference to a special (i.e., physical) relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalen. That, if it's true, strikes me as a rather important bit of supporting evidence. I think there's a good possibility that the documentary was kind of "watered down" (which wouldn't be a first) and didn't really get a good foothold on the topic. If that were the case, it could make the scholarship (or whatever you'd want to call it) behind the book look bad where, in fact, it was the documentary that was at fault. Anyway, those are my ramblings... I think you might find the sermon interesting so I'm including the link below. Cheers! http://austinuu.org/sermons/2003/2003-09-21-TheDaVinciCodePartOne.html#_ftn1

Posted by: Mr. Comment | November 11, 2003 6:17 PM

Unitarian ministers are generally fine, humane men. The notion that anyone can know anything about the Jewish prophet, stories of whom evolved into the the collection of folklore called the Christian religion is nothing more than wishful thinking.

Posted by: Richard Evans Lee | November 12, 2003 9:28 AM

I could waste a lot of time debunking this notion of Jesus and Mary, but just quickly a few thoughts. The research for this book is poor. Dan Brown makes so many basic mistakes that I hardly trust anything else he props up as evidence. He states that the Qumran discoveries took place in the 1950's and that they contained gospels. Check your facts again. 1947 was the actual date and there were no gospels in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls contained Old Testament writings and Qumran community writings. The Gnostic gospels are another subject that can used and abused. Why did Dan Brown pick and choose which Gnostic gospels to use? Why not read further into Phillip where Jesus says that Women had to become Men in order to enter into the kingdom of God. That doesn't sound like Goddess worship at all. The historical dating of the Gnostic writings is at least a century after Christ. The bottom line is that Dan Brown's novel is filled with inaccuracies and the books that he uses as reference material are not scholarly. I could spend another hour tearing the whole notion apart, but why bother. Anyone who cares to look will see the truth.

Posted by: Kannibal | November 13, 2003 11:10 PM

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