It sounds like The Da Vinci Code: a new history book claims that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered two children with her.
The book, The Lost Gospel, will also claim that there was a previously unknown plot on Jesus’s life when he was 20 and an assassination attempt on Mary and her children.
While it may appear to be fiction, the book, which is published later this month, is based on an ancient manuscript held by the British Library.
The authors are Simcha Jacobovici, an Israeli-Canadian writer and film-maker who specialises in ancient historical and archeological investigations, and Barrie Wilson, a professor of religious studies at York University, Toronto.
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“Simcha Jacobovici” — The first clue this is a total scam. His next piece will probably be “Alien Autopsy: the Jesus Edition.”
Oh good grief. Not this old chestnut again.
Remember the ossuary discovered in Jerusalem with Jesus’s name on? Later discovered to be a recent manufacture. And so on. And on. Trouble is, real scholarship never grabs the headlines only the froth interests Joe Public.
Christmas (or Easter) must be coming up.
A previously unknown plot on Jesus’ life when he was 20? What did they do, find an old copy of the Galilee Gazette in the British Library? Nonetheless, we can expect breathless excitement about this in the usual circles.
Katherine, I love itl Maybe the Tiberius Times?
The plot was by the People’s Front of Judea. Or was it the Judean People’s Front?
Wait till the special issue of the National Geographic is published.
They are buried in Rosslyn Chapel I suppose.
Oh, I see, Pageantmaster. I had to look up Rosslyn Chapel, not having read Dan Brown’s silly book. But if Jesus and MM were supposed to be the forbears of the Merovingians, what they were doing in Scotland is anyone’s guess. The nice thing about fantasies is the lack of rational boundaries.
#9 Katherine
Thanks for struggling on with my references – sometimes I am too oblique for my own good!
“what they were doing in Scotland is anyone’s guess”
Attending a meeting of the Illuminati? Perhaps Joseph was due to join them but got blown off course and ended up in Glastonbury. Stay tuned for next week’s exciting episode of The Sunday Times to find out.
There is a good debunking in Huff Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-carey/jacobovici-the-lost-gospel_b_6133118.html