The Da Vinci Code: A Jewish Perspective

This book asserts there has been a massive conspiracy covering up the true story of the origins of Christianity. Is there any truth to this claim? And what does all this have to do with Judaism?
In this eye-opening booklet, Rabbi Michael Skobac unravels fact from fiction and shows that indeed, there is a story that has been obscured – but one much more interesting than the one proposed by Dan Brown.
Part of the appeal of this novel is certainly its claim to be revealing an actual conspiracy that has concealed the true story of Jesus and the origins of Christianity – and that this knowledge, if ever revealed, has the potential to undermine the Church as we know it today. In our cynical age where many people don’t trust traditional authority and organized religion, this book has become immensely popular among Christians who wonder, “What haven’t they told us? And why not?”
Presented as a fictional story based upon historical fact, Da Vinci Code makes the following controversial claims:
• Jesus of Nazareth was married to Mary Magdalene and fathered a daughter named Sarah who became the progenitor
of the Merovingian line of French kings – and this bloodline still exists today.
• The legendary Holy Grail is not a chalice, but a metaphor for Mary Magdalene.
• The historical Christian church has suppressed this knowledge and has attempted to stamp out feminine spirituality.
• The Christian Bible was foisted upon the world by the emperor Constantine in the 4th century to further his
own selfish agenda, and displaced the true accounts of Christianity that are now preserved in Gnostic texts.
• Jesus’ secret bloodline has been protected by an ancient organization called the Priory of Sion. The members of
this clandestine society have hidden and continue to hide clues of these secrets in works of literature and art.

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