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Copyright © 2004 by Darrell L. Bock All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the priorwritten permission of the publisher.Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations noted

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are from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAI. VERSION'. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 byInternational Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations noted

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are from the REVISED STANDARD VERSION of the Bible. Copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 by theDivision of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission.Scripture quotations marked

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are taken from New English Translation [computer file]: NET Bible.—electronic edition.—Dallas, TX:Biblical Studies Press, 1998. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBock, Darrell L.Breaking the da Vinci code : answers to the questions everybody

s asking / Darrell L. Bock.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references.ISBN 0-7852-6046-3 (hardcover)1. Brown, Dan, 1964– Da Vinci code. 2. Mary Magdalene, Saint—In literature. 3. Christian saints in literature. 4. Jesus Christ—Inliterature. 5. Christianity in literature. I. Title.PS3552.R685434D3 2004813

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To my wife, Sally Bock, and her two sisters,Martha Sheeder and Elizabeth Volmert,who encouraged me to write this book and askedmany of the good questions it answers.3