Dan Brown's fobbing the reader off with the records' translations and the last supper's marks as evidence of Christ's Marriage Taboo in The Da Vinci Code

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In 2003, Dan Brown had written The Da Vinci Code–henceforth DVC-, the novel that has acquired a matchless reputation and been privileged with incomparable studies which have reached the utmost scope of controversy since it was supposed to rock the foundations of Christianity because of Jesus Christ's marriage and to none other Mary Magdalene(1), the uprightness of the Holy Bible, and the deity of Jesus, which, the three topics, lie behind Jesus Christ's and Mary Magdalene's marriage.

To ascertain Brown's assertion of this marriage, the researcher has intended to analyze a number of extracts taken from the novel focusing on those related to the deity/humanity of Jesus and His alleged marriage to Magdalene.

The analysis will be based upon the information which as Brown claims, is taken from pieces of "fact-based historical and scientific evidence.

" These pieces are related to the sexuality of Christ and the assertions of His marriage to Magdalene.

Those assertions concern with his supposed translations of the records and documents and The Last Supper on which the core of the novel is based.

Thus, the study aims at answering the question whether Brown had proved/had not proved the three tabooed topics mentioned above.3To answer this question, the researcher has analyzed his, Brown's, pieces of evidence which he claims are "accurate, true and well- researched" for they are completely taken from actual documents and sources.

The analysis will be linguistic-religious.

It aims to ascertain whether this evidence is correct or erroneous, and subsequently, to judge whether there are actually taboos in his novel or not.

Key words: Christ's and Magdalene's marriage, Nag Hammadi and the Dead Sea Scrolls, taboo, The Last Supper, the Six Step Attitudinal Change Plan