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Thread #77817   Message #2294297
Posted By: Ruth Archer
21-Mar-08 - 05:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: What did Jesus look like?
Subject: RE: BS: What did Jesus look like?
I realise that this was the topic - my point is simply that it's not even worth speculating about, when the available information that exists about Jesus is limited by the exclusion of a number of texts.

Not sure about the "Superman comic books" gospels, but there were certainly some gospels which challenged the supremacy of St Peter as Christ's choice for the first pope, proposing Mary Magdalene instead. These were taken sufficiently seriously to spawn Magdalene cults in the first centuries after Christ's death.

BTW, I'm not going all Da Vinci Code here - I've never even read it, though I remember thinking that the book that spawned it, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, was a thouroughly entertaining (though completely preposterous) read.