How are art historians and religious studies scholars reacting to all the attention suddenly highlighted on these subjects?
WS: I think most scholars of early Christianity are just amused by the fuss. The book and movie are both fictional, and it would be a mistake for anyone to take them as historical. On the other hand, anything that gets people interested in what the historical Jesus might have been like can lead to more thoughtful consideration of that issue in general. Sff: I read “The Da Vinci Code” while on vacation, and it was a fun escape. Brown produced a fast-paced, screenplay-like work of fiction. The narrative structure is totally unlikely: its characters moving only in a forward direction with few if any detours, wrong turns or stops for calls of nature, meals or sleep. With such an implausible chain of coincidences, I wonder why people even imagine that there is “truth” in the details? The book loses any claims it might have for authority from its title: no one with expertise on Leonardo ever calls him “Da Vinci.” His family came from the town Vinci outside Florence. In Renaissance naming con
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