Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine

Author: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Bart D. Ehrman

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07:06.14

Published: 11th March 2008

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A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has sold in its millions. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that the historical information in the book is all factually accurate. But is this claim true?

As historian Bart D Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, The Da Vinci Code is filled with numerous historical mistakes. Did the ancient church engage in a cover-up to make the man Jesus into a divine figure? Did Emperor Constantine select for the New Testament - from some eighty contending Gospels - the only four that stressed that Jesus was divine? And did Christ really marry Mary Magdalene?