Where did the Jesus myth come from?

[Jackalope]

Seriously? Dan Brown? He wrote fiction and labeled it as such.

When Dan Brown was being sewed for copyright, I saw a television show about it, and one of the central issues was the copyright infringement was only possible because he wasn't labeling it fiction. He had taken the idea of Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene from another book in which the author claims it to be true. The story goes that he only labeled his story fiction to avoid the lawsuit.

Take this for what it is, however, which is me recounting what I saw on a television documentary. As to the truth of the documentary, I don't know, and I'm too damn lazy right now to verify it through an internet search.

FNM - just piggybacking on your post becuase my point dovetails nicely with yours.

Even if all of that were true, his work doesn't even close to meeting any kind of standards for scholarship. It's indistinguishable from fiction, and should be treated as such. To do othewise is intellectually dishonest, to say the lest.