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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
Searching for Sophia by Dan Burstein
BOOK I: The Drama of Herstory, History, and Heresy
Part I: Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine
Chapter 1: Mary Magdalene: How a Woman of Substance Was Harlotized by History
Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner? by David Van Biema
Sacred Sex and Divine Love: A Radical Reconceptualization of Mary Magdalene by Lynn Picknett
The Woman With the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird
May Magdalene: Model for Women in the Church an Interview with Susan Haskins
Mary Magdalene: Myth or Metaphor? by Susan Haskins
Beyond the Myth by Esther de Boer
"The Da Vinci Code uses fiction as a means to interpret historical obscurity . . . " by Deirdre Good
Critiquing the Conspiracy Theory An Interview with Katherine Ludwig Jansen
The Beliefnet Debate:
A Quite Contrary Mary by Kenneth L. Woodward
Letting Mary Magdalene Speak by Karen L. King
"Is It Sinful to Engage in Sex within Marriage?” an Interview with Rev. Richard P. McBrien
Chapter 2: The Sacred Feminine
God Does Not Look Like A Man -- The Perspectives of Margaret Starbird
Two Years Later: The Da Vinci Code's Impact on the Belief in the Sacred Union an Interview with Margaret Starbird
The Gnostic Tradition and the Divine Mother by Elaine Pagels
The Godman and the Goddess An Interview with Timothy Freke
Sophia's Journey: The Pagan Goddess of the Centuries Lost in the Modern Christian World by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
The Chalice and the Blade: Archeology, Anthropology, and the Sacred Feminine The work of Rian Eisler
Part II: Echoes of the Hidden Past
Chapter 3: The Lost Gospels: "Liberated" Christianity
An Astonishing Find: The Keys to the Alternate Tradition and Their Meaning for Today by Elaine Pagels
What the Nag Hammadi Texts Have to Tell Us About "Liberated" Christianity an interview with James M. Robinson
The Gospel of Thomas, Helmut Koester, introduction; Thomas O. Lambdin, translator
The Gospel of Philip Wesley W. Isenberg, introduction and translation
The Gospel of Mary Karen L. King, introduction; Geroge W. MacCrea and R. McL. Wilson, translation
The Sophia of Jesus Christ Introduced and translated by Douglas M. Parrott
What Was Lost is Found: A Wider View of Christianity and Its Roots an interview with Elaine Pagels
Chapter 4: The Early Days of Christianities: From the Many, One
Consolidation, or Cover-Up?
The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Didn't Get a Chance to Know an interview with Bart D. Ehrman
Ten Errors of Ommission and Commission in The Da Vinci Code by Bart Ehrman
God's Words or Human Words?by Elaine Pagels
The Jesus Mysteries by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
Was Jesus Real? An interview with Timothy Freke
The Da Vinci Code and Jewish Culture An interview with Rabbi Asher Jacobson
Why Were the Gnostics Considered Such a Threat? by Lance Owens
Diverging Views on Mythic Beginnings: Was Genesis History with a Moral, or a Myth with Meaning? by Stephan A. Hoeller
Breaking The Da Vinci Code by Collin Hansen
Chapter 5: Secret Societies
Recollections of a Gnostic Mass by John Castro
The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
Researching Western Civilization's Darkest Secrets An interview with Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
The Opus Dei Debate
Opus Dei in the United States by James Martin, S.J.
Thank You, Lord, May I Have Another? by Craig Offman
Opus Dei Responds to The Da Vinci Code
Part III: Keeping the Secrets Secret
Chapter 6: The Mystery of Codes, Symbols, and Other Clues to the Hidden Past
The Codes of Dan Brown by David A. Shugarts
Is God a Mathematician? An interview with Brendan McKay
Beyond Professor Langdon's Classroom: The Divine Proportion Explained by Keith Devlin
The "Symbology" of The Da Vinci Code An interview with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Secrets of Sand and Stone: The Da Vinci Code and New Archeological Finds by Gwen Kinkead
In Search of the Holy Grail at the Rosslyn Chapel by Diane Maclean
Rosslyn Chapel: The Cathedral of the Codes by Dan Burstein
Anagram Fun
Chapter 7: Sfumato: Leonardo and His Secrets
The Secret Code of Leonardo da Vinci by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
Thinking Far Outside the Box by Lynn Picknett
Trying to Make Sense of Leonardo's "Faded Smudge" An interview with Denise Budd
"No, I do not believe there is a woman in the Last Supper . . . " An interview with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Musings on the Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci by Sherwin B. Nuland
New Discoveries about the "Grand Master" Himself: Leonardo since The Da Vinci Code by Cathleen McGuigan
BOOK II - The Da Vinci Code Revealed
Part I: Reviews and Commentaries
Chapter 8: The Dan Brown Revelations
A Collision of Indiana Jones and Joseph Campbell Craig McDonald interviews Dan Brown
In Search of Dan Brown: A Mini-Biography by David A. Shugarts
The Latin Etymology of The Da Vinci Code by David Burstein
What's Next for Robert Langdon? by David A. Shugarts
Chapter 9: "Code Hot. Critics Hotter."
The Da Vinci Con by Laura Miller
Looking for the Grail of Truth in The Da Vinci Code's Version of Early Christianity by Bernard Hamilton
The Vatican Code by Maureen Dowd
Broken Promises: Deciphering the Success of The Da Vinci Code by Curtis White
Religious Fiction by David Klinghoffer
The Cardinal and the Code by Dan Burstein
Faithful Reader Sorts Through the Expanding Bookshelf of "Code" Books by Marcia Ford
Chapter 10: Commentaries & Observations
The Real da Vinci Code by Lynn Picknett
The Case of the Purloined Plot? An interview with Lewis Perdue
French Confection by Amy Bernstein
Paris: In the Footsteps of The Da Vinci Code by David Downie
Cracking the Art of The Da Vinci Code at the Louvre by Elizabeth Bard
Part II: Underneath the Pyramid
Chapter 11: Sophie's Library
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Da Vinci Code Effect by Arne de Keijzer
The Plot Holes and Intriguing Details of The Da Vinci Code by David A. Shugarts
Following the Rose Line by Dan Burstein
A Rose by Any Other Name: A Guide to Who's Who in The Da Vinci Code by David A. Shugarts
Leigh Teabing's Bookshelf: The 30 Best Books Related to The Da Vinci Code by Paul Berger
Glossary
Contributors
Acknowledgments