Bible conspiracy theory
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A Bible conspiracy theory is any conspiracy theory that posits that much of what is known about the Bible is a deception created to suppress some secret, ancient truth. Some of these theories claim that Jesus really had a wife and children, or that a group such as the Priory of Sion has secret information about the true descendants of Jesus; some claim that there was a secret movement to censor books that truly belonged in the Bible, etc.
This subject should not be confused with deliberately fictional Bible conspiracy theories. A number of bestselling modern novels, the most popular of which was The Da Vinci Code, have incorporated elements of Bible conspiracy theories to flesh out their storylines, rather than to push these theories as actual suggestions.
Books
- The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History, Michael Baigent (2006)
- Jesus the Magician: Charlatan or Son of God?, Morton Smith (1978)
- The Jesus Dynasty, James Tabor (2006)
- Jesus the Man: New Interpretations from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Barbara Thiering (1993)
- The Jesus Scroll, Donovan Joyce (1972)
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (1982)
- The Templar Revelation, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince (1997)
- The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (1999)
- The Jesus Conspiracy: The Turin Shroud and the Truth About the Resurrection, Holger Kersten and Elmar R. Gruber (1994)
- History of the first Council of Nice : a world's Christian convention, A.D. 325 ; with a life of Constantine, Dean Dudley (1880)
See also
- Gospel of Judas
- Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera
- Jesus myth hypothesis
- Zeitgeist, the Movie
- The Two Babylons
- Panbabylonism
- Desposyni
- Jesus bloodline
- Holy Grail
