What about Mary Magdalene – and the plot in Dan Browns book The Da Vinci Code?
Leigh TEABING is the anagrammatically-named historian (after real-life Richard Leigh and Michael BAIGENT) in Dan Brown’s popular novel. It is Teabing who refers to the ‘marriage’ supposed to exist between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, suggesting that this was a union hinted at by Leonardo in his famous painting The Last Supper. Some Christian commentators have long cast doubt upon this scenario, seeking even to deny that Magdalene is the ‘sinner’ who comes to Jesus at Lk.7:37. Yet if they understood the deeper message of the gospels – if they understood the ‘mystery’ and knew who Jesus was supposed to be – they would not deny these things. Brown’s tradition of the sacred feminine, identified in his novel with the Holy Grail, is derived primarily from the non-canonical gospels (sometimes referred to as the Gnostic gospels). Dated to the early centuries CE, these texts – along with their characters, Jesus and Magdalene – are surely as much fiction as Dan Brown’s own work. Nothing here is tru
