Ehrman om Da Vincikoden

Bart Ehrman är en amerikansk bibelvetare, som har skrivit en bra lärobok om Nya testamentet som jag läst i B-kursen, The New Testament. A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Hans senaste bok heter Lost Christianities och behandlar de många olika typerna av kristendom som fanns de första århundradena. I samband med arbetet med denna blev han intresserad av Browns Da Vincikoden, och berättar nu i boken Truth And Fiction In The Da Vinci Code. A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine om vad bibelvetenskapen anser om vad som är fakta och fiktion Da Vincikoden.
Bloggen NT Gateway tipsar om en intervju med Ehrman: Unpacking 'The Code'.

How is your book different from previous "Da Vinci Code" spinoffs?
I haven't made a precise study of this, but I think almost all of the other books are written by evangelical Christians who are concerned that "The Da Vinci Code" might lead their people astray. And that isn't my agenda at all. My agenda really is more historical—making sure people understand the historical realities of the life of Jesus, his relationship to Mary Magdalene, how we got our New Testament Gospels, why other gospels were excluded, what the role of Constantine was in the formation of Christianity. These are for me purely historical interests. And people are obviously interested; some are interested in them for religious reasons and some just because they're interested in our culture's past.

Bart Ehrman on the fiction of Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' -- Beliefnet.com

Uppdaterat: Läs också Hypotyposeis: Ehrman on the Gospel of Thomas.