The Da Vinci Code Online

Dan Brown, in The Da Vinci Code, has Robert Langdon telling Sophie Neveu that early Judaism involved ritualistic sex performed in the temple.
“Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple housed not only God but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah. Men seeking spiritual wholeness came to the Temple to visit priestesses [...]

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Tracy Wilson, at HowStuffWorks, has written a series of articles on “How the Da Vinci Code Doesn’t Work“. In her online version of the Myth Busters she explores the following:
The GPS dot in Langdon’s pocket
The Virgin of the Rocks, which hangs in the Grand Gallery
Albinism
Wiccan religion
Tarot Cards
Dead Sea Scrolls
Louvre’s 60 curators
Symbiology not a real academic [...]

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Warned by the critics not to expect too much, I turned up last night to watch the movie, The Da Vinci Code.

Positives
Almost full marks for use of paintings in the movie. Stand out scenes in this regard included the flight of Sauniere in the Louvre and the room used for the conference of clerics at [...]

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