for the umpteenth time _ why is everyone both vilifying and crediting Brown with these "ideas"?
He simply took the 'ideas' that have been around for 2000 years - and from CURRENT publications - NON-fiction with extensive biblios - and used them as a springboard for a NOVEL: "a fictional prose work with a relatively long and often complex plot, "
Is it that so few folk today read NON-fiction or is it that it is hoped that by keeping the focus on the fiction story it may deflect from people discovering the NON-fictional (like in historical and factual) accounts of the "ideas" being credited to Brown?
For those who want to know where Brown got "his" ideas, a good place to start is a book that first gave Brown the impetus to explore further - a book by a lifelong Catholic with an impressive background, who set out to disprove the Mary Magdalene/Jesus marriage story. It was her first book on the subject: "The Woman With the Alabaster Jar" - published looonnng before the DC.
For those qwho already know all the facts );o) don't look at the following:
Margaret Starbird's web sight - scroll down to her bio first -
http://www.margaretstarbird.net/
and for heavens sake, don't read any of Sir Laurence Gardner's books or the many others now in print on these 'ideas' that will come up in Amazon.com, for one.
And close your eyes now, I'm going to post a photo of a stained glass window in a European church - been there long before Brown was born:
