ebook img

The truth behind the Da Vinci code: a historian explores what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine PDF

232 Pages·2004·1.774 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview The truth behind the Da Vinci code: a historian explores what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine

(cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:6)(cid:10)(cid:11)(cid:12)(cid:4)(cid:11)(cid:13)(cid:8)(cid:6)(cid:11)(cid:8)(cid:6)(cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:4)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:10)(cid:8)(cid:4)(cid:11)(cid:12)(cid:13)(cid:3) This page intentionally left blank (cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:6)(cid:10)(cid:11)(cid:12)(cid:4)(cid:11)(cid:13)(cid:8)(cid:6)(cid:11)(cid:8)(cid:6)(cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:4)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:10)(cid:8)(cid:4)(cid:11)(cid:12)(cid:13)(cid:3) d AHistorian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine BART D. EHRMAN 2004 Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright © 2004 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ehrman, Bart D. Truth and fiction in The Da Vinci Code : a historian reveals what we really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine / by Bart D. Ehrman. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-19-518140-9 1. Brown, Dan, 1964- Da Vinci code. 2. Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, d. 337—In literature. 3. Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, d. 337—Religion. 4. Mary Magdalene, Saint—In literature. 5. Christian saints in literature. 6. Jesus Christ—In literature. 7. Christianity and literature. 8. Christianity in literature. I. Title. PS3552.R685434D3335 2004 813'.54—dc22 2004056805 Credits for illustrations. Fig. 1: Vanni/ Art Resource, NY; Fig. 2a (caves): Bart Ehrman; Fig. 2b (scrolls): Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Figs. 3 and 4: Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont, CA; Fig. 5: British Library, London; Fig. 6: Rylands Library, University of Manchester; Fig. 7: André Held; Fig. 8: Scala/ Art Resource, NY. 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To Robert Miller, friend and editor extraordinaire This page intentionally left blank d (cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:6) Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part 1: The Emperor Constantine, the New Testament, and the Other Gospels 1. The Role of Constantine in Early Christianity 3 2. The Discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library 25 3. The Other Gospels 47 4. Constantine and the Formation of the New Testament Canon 73 viii CONTENTS Part 2: Jesus and Mary Magdalene 5. The Historical Sources for Jesus 97 6. The Historical Jesus of Our Sources 119 7. Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Marriage 141 8. The Feminine in Early Christianity 163 Epilogue 185 Notes 191 Index 199 d (cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:3)(cid:2)(cid:10)(cid:11)(cid:5)(cid:12)(cid:13)(cid:14)(cid:5)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:6) I would like to thank two people for helping me write this book. The first is my friend and editor at Oxford University Press, Robert Miller, who conceived of the idea, convinced me to pur- sue it, and read the manuscript with a scrupulous eye to detail. The other is my former student, Andrew Jacobs, at the Univer- sity of California, Riverside, whose careful and extensive com- ments on an original draft of the book far exceeded anything that friendship or collegiality could have asked.

See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.