![]() In 2006, a film adaptation was released by Columbia Pictures. In November 2004, Random House published a Special Illustrated Edition with 160 illustrations. In 'Breaking the Da Vinci Code,' New Testament scholar Darrell Bock describes and refutes the 'codes' behind 'The Da Vinci Code,' which could better be understood to be the presuppositions of author Dan Brown, and those who subscribe to his Gnostic view of Christianity. The novel nonetheless became a massive worldwide bestseller that sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into 44 languages. The book has, however, been extensively denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Catholic Church, and also consistently criticized by scholars for its historical and scientific inaccuracies. The Da Vinci Code provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and Mary Magdalene's role in the history of Christianity. The book also refers to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982), though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. ![]()
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