Resumo de Secrets Of The Code: The Unauthorized Guide To The Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code

How to satisfy the endless hunger for information among the millions of readers caught up in The Da Vinci Code mania? Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code is the most comprehensive, literate guide available for interpreting the intellectual intricacies of Dan Brown's bestselling novel. This unprecedented volume provides a wealth of fresh insight from the world's most respected authorities on the novel's controversial historical, religious, artistic, and scientific themes. Interviews and commentary from renowned scientists, theologians, archeologists, philosophers, historians, and art historians address such provocative topics as: What was the true identity of Mary Magdalene? Was Mary Magdalene a disciple of Jesus and did she write her own gospel? Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a child together? In the late 1960s, the Church publicly reversed its 1,400-year-old position that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, but this revised history was never effectively communicated to the public. Has there been a "cover-up" of the role of women in church history? Did some geniuses of art and science ? like Leonardo DaVinci and Isaac Newton ? belong to secret societies that had the most compelling insider information in history? Did Leonardo convey some of the ideas in The Last Supper and other paintings? Packed with excerpts from many original works, all-new material, and interviews with prominent scholars, Secrets of the Code will satisfy readers' curiosity, engage their imagination, and provide them with insights to better understand the multi-facted mysteries, secret codes, and messages embedded in the novel. As Dan Burstein explains, My goal in writing Secrets was to explore all the major mysteries of history ? from religious history to art history ? suggested by the plot of The Da Vinci Code. I assume there are a lot of other readers out there like myself who want to know what is fact and what is fiction in The Da Vinci Code. Secrets will give everyone the tools to be able to develop their own ideas in response to many of the provocative questions the novel touches on.Meticulously researched and compulsively readable, this volume is an excellent choice for book clubs and discussion groups.

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