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Friday, April 7, 2006 12:00 AM

Jesus: The coverup

"Holy Blood, Holy Grail," the source for "The Da Vinci Code," is a masterwork of paranoid pseudohistory. Now its author is back, arguing that Jesus faked his own death and ran off with Mary Magdelene. Verily, there's a sucker born every minute.
By Laura Miller

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  • Saturday, April 8, 2006 08:57 PM

    What's good for the goose...

    The question is, should Baigent now be sued by Hugh J. Schonfield, the author of "The Passover Plot", which proposed this theory 40 years ago?

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