Word: baigent
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...issue is less titles like The Jesus Papers--by Michael Baigent, a nonacademic who claims Jesus survived the Crucifixion but who cannot produce solid proof--than the plunge into alternative biblical narrative by recognized scholars. The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who also aided Jacobovici, enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father and hoped for an earthly kingship. Professors and best-selling authors Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman both have books out claiming to derive new insights from the rediscovered Gnostic...
...copyright case against him could be read as a blockbuster how-to: When I read his book, I enjoyed it greatly - but its close relation to Holy Blood, Holy Grail became increasingly obvious. The name of Brown's character Teabing is an anagram of the last name of Michael Baigent, one of the authors of Grail. A sixth step to a best seller? Frits Sollewijn Gelpke Vorstenbosch, the Netherlands All Wet In "around the corner" [march 20], your forum of thinkers who discussed the trends of the future, Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Andrés Martinez said...
CLEARED. DAN BROWN, 41, author of The Da Vinci Code, of copyright infringement; by London's High Court. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had claimed that Brown had copied the "central theme" of their nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Both books propose that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child and that their bloodline lives on today...