{"product_id":"2000003479115","title":"The Gospel Code","description":"\u003cp\u003e Dan Brown's international bestseller The Da Vinci Code has raised many questions in the minds of readers.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Was Jesus really married to Mary Magdalene? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Did he father a child with her? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Did Constantine suppress the earliest Gospels and invent the doctrine of Christ's divinity? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Do the Gnostic Gospels represent the true Christian faith which the early church sought to supplant? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Da Vinci Code, in blurring the lines between fact and fiction, 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 III confronts these claims with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. He 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"christianaudio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47087880470768,"sku":"2000003479115","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2000003479115_p0.jpg?v=1763537484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2000003479115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}