PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Ben Witherington III confronts the claims of The Da Vinci Code with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers: Was Jesus really married to Mary Magdalene? Did he father a child with her? Did Constantine suppress the earliest Gospels and invent the doctrine of Christ's divinity? Do the Gnostic Gospels represent the true Christian faith that the early church sought to supplant? The Da Vinci Code popularizes the speculations and contentions of numerous more serious books that are also attracting wide attention. How should we respond to claims that we now have documents that reveal secrets about Jesus, secrets long suppressed by the church and other religious institutions? Do these new documents successfully debunk traditional views about Jesus and early Christianity? Ben Witherington takes us back to the early centuries after Jesus' death and tells us what we can really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the canonical Gospels, and their Gnostic rivals.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ben Witherington

Bible scholar Ben Witherington is Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University in Scotland. A graduate of UNC, Chapel Hill, he went on to receive the M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Durham in England. He is now considered one of the top evangelical scholars in the world and is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher ‏ : ‎ IVP; Special Edition (2 Jun. 2004)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 083083267X

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0830832675

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm