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Originally posted by CanadianTeke
as for the book i enjoyed both Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, they were good reads, regardless of their truth (who am I to say whether it is the truth or not, it's based on 2000 year old information).
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True (no pun intended), but there is a great deal of historical documentation out there-- both as to church history and Da Vinci -- that patently contradicts the historical claims made in the book.
Some are obvious -- such as saying that the Tetragrammaton ("YHWH," the divine name of God that was never spoken, or of the "male" God according to the
Code) is "in fact derived from Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah." Anybody who speaks Hebrew can tell you that Jehovah is not a Hebrew name, and any scholar who has looked into it at all can tell you that the word "Jehovah" was invented by a medieval monk as an attempt to figure out how to pronounce "YHWH."
Others errors are not as obvious, but are demonstrably false just the same.
Here's a link to a good, short historical analysis written by an Episcopal priest who can hardly be called a fundamentalist:
Cracking the Code.
(And I still loved reading the book.)
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