Endnotes – Was There a Jesus Conspiracy?

1. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 234.
2. Brown, 233.
3. Quoted in Erwin Lutzer, The Da Vinci Deception (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2004), xix.
4. Brown, 233.
5. Brown, 231.
6. Lutzer, 71.
7. Brown, 234.
8. John McManners, ed., The Oxford History of Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 28.
9. Darrell L. Bock, Breaking the Da Vinci Code (Nashville: Nelson, 2004), 114.
10.  Bock, 119-120.
11. Quoted in James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library: The Definitive Translation of the Gnostic Scriptures (HarperCollins, 1990), 138.
12. Ibid.,13.
13. Bock, 64.
14. Norman Geisler and Ron Brooks, When Skeptics Ask (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998), 156.
15. Barbara Kantrowitz and Anne Underwood, “Decoding ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ “Newsweek, December 8, 2003, 54.
16. Quoted in Robinson, 126.
17. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. 1998), 68.
18. Quoted in Lutzer, 32.
19. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life, 1999, 37.)
20. Linda Kulman and Jay Tolson, “Jesus in America,” U. S. News & World Report, December 22, 2003, 2.

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