What Da Vinci Didn't Know: An Lds Perspective

by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Thomas A. Wayment, Andrew C. Skinner

Book Overview

Few books in recent years have enjoyed the popularity of Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code. Set amid the museums and cathedrals of Europe, the book purports to identify the Holy Grail and describes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590386086
• ISBN13: 9781590386088
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Shadow Mountain
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Couldn't cover it all, but did a great job with what it could

I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (both movie and novel), and I enjoyed this book as well, since it helped me to see the the elements that were fictionalized. A reviewer said that the authors of What Da Vinci Didn't know were "nitpicky in all the wrong places," and that they "attack the parts of the book that are admittedly fiction," but I say, ADMITTEDLY TO WHOM? You'd be surprised how many people--due to Brown's postulation at the front of the book that all the documents and things referenced in The Da Vinci Code exist (especially the ones who'd never heard of such documents before)--actually believed that what he said ABOUT those documents, etc. was actually true! While it's true that the authors did not go into many things postulated in The Da Vinci Code, they did debunk quite a lot of it. And despite what the reviewer I mentioned above said, the debunking was VERY necessary. As for the reviewer who complained that not enough was said about certain LDS aspects--I think it's better without those. After all, most of What Da Vinci Didn't Know referenced documents that were more scholarly than scripture--the Nag Hamadi and the Dead Sea scrolls being prominent examples. Or, if scripture was used as a reference, there were other scholarly references to back it up. To add more scriptural and/or purely religious references without scholarly support (and I don't know whether proper support could be found for those problems said reviewer referenced as being lacking argument in What Da Vinci Didn't Know) would have made it sound like an argument not unlike "God/the Bible said it's this way, so it has to be this way," which is not only childish, but will not convince anybody that the argument is sound. For me, it is enough that the authors were able to explain that Jesus' followers at the time he walked with them believed him to be divine. To me, that automatically makes the divine sonship apparent.