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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Topic Started: Jun 13 2006, 07:44 AM (177 Views)
iainhp
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Sunday's paper has this listed in the NY Times Book Review no. 5 spot for NONFICTION paperback. From Amazon's description of the book:

It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man.

Guess it's ok to make up wild conclusions as long as you show some facts that support it. But write a fictional story (ala Da Vinci Code) asserting similar things and the world goes nuts?

Anyone read this book? Worth reading?

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John D'Oh
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iainhp
Jun 13 2006, 11:44 AM
Sunday's paper has this listed in the NY Times Book Review no. 5 spot for NONFICTION paperback. From Amazon's description of the book:

It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man.

Guess it's ok to make up wild conclusions as long as you show some facts that support it. But write a fictional story (ala Da Vinci Code) asserting similar things and the world goes nuts?

Anyone read this book? Worth reading?

I was given it as a birthday present when it was first published in 1982. I never managed to finish it as I found it to be tedious in the extreme. I can't remember the details of it, but I can't stand stuff that masquerades as history.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Nina
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I thought it had been totally debunked.

From wiki:

The Priory of Sion, mentioned for the first time in 1956, is a fictitious secret society invented by the French mystifier Pierre Plantard. In a series of false documents deposited with the national Library in the middle of the Sixties and entitled Files secret of Henri Lobineau, Plantard presents the Priory like a brotherhood going up at 1099, dependent on the Order of the Temple and whose mission would have been to preserve the secrecy of a hidden descent of Mérovingiens for the restoration of a monarchy mérovingienne in France.
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kenny
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Hey.
It sells books. :shrug:
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***musical princess***
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HOLY CARP!!!
It's on my shelf yet to be read.

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DivaDeb
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the authors of that book are the ones who sued Brown for plagiarism (and lost)

I imagine it bumped sales of both books.
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