The controversy surrounding the book “The Da Vinci Code,” by Dan Brown, continues to swirl as evidenced by the article “`The Da Vinci Code’ . . . unscrambled” (Tempo, Feb. 5), by Patrick T. Reardon, Tribune staff reporter.
All the experts questioned disparaged the book as nothing but fiction.
Of course, it’s fiction.
But much fiction is based on fact.
Brown’s theory that Jesus was married is supported by one irrefutable truth that no theologian can ignore: Jewish law and custom, which mandated marriage and sexual relations.
In Jesus’ time, it was absolutely unthinkable for a man not to be married; it was required, and given the fact that Jesus was a religious Jew, it is highly unlikely that he would not have been married by the time he was 30.
Jewish law convinced me.
Then, of course, there’s my father, a Biblical scholar, who informed me that the idea that Jesus was married is hardly new and that many respected theologians believe it to be true.
