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Title: Breaking The Da Vinci Code : Answers to the Questions Everybody's Asking by Darrell L. Bock ISBN: 0-7852-6046-3 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 21 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (26 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY
Comment: Ever order a book that you really had high expectations for, only to find out that it doesn't even talk about what you most wanted to read about??? Well, if that's the kind of book you want, then this one is for you.

I am stunned by Bock's audacity to call his book "Breaking The Da Vinci Code" when his book CONTAINS NOTHING ABOUT LEONARDO DA VINCI'S PAINTINGS!!!!

Can someone explain this to me??? Some of THE most important questions everyone is asking about Dan Brown's book relates to the many claims Brown makes about Da Vinci and his works of art. Bock answers none of these things. Hmmmmm. What does that say? Regarding The Last Supper and all the things Brown points out, Bock says zip, nada, nothing. He is equally silent about the Mona Lisa and the Virgin of the Rocks. What gives???

So what do you get for your hard earned money?-you get Bock beating you over the head saying, basically, Christianity is true, believe like I believe, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Don't get me wrong. being a Christian is fine. Super! But this book is called "Breaking The Da Vinci Code" NOT "Why you should be a Christian in Spite of Dan Brown's Bestseller." Bock should have used the second title.

Try either the book by Lunn (Da Vinci Code Decoded) or the one by Abanes (The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code). The first is long (208 pp.), the second is short and sweet (96 pp.).

Rating: 3
Summary: Pretty good!
Comment: Bock certainly has written a lot about the period around the first century AD, and he draws on that experience to compose a lot of the text of this book. In that sense, Bock is doing a great service by providing a decent historical context to the assertions made in Dan Brown's book.

Unfortunately, Bock is not really able to address the whole set of contentions surrounding modern Wicca and goddess ritual, which is the whole point of Brown's novel. Brown has already pretty much said he intended to promote goddess worship, and his claims in that area need to be addressed as well. This book doesn't do much of that.

I don't know about you, but I'm kind of busy, and I found it a lot easier to get through "Fact and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code". It addresses most of the same issues Bock does, but it also goes on to address the problem of Wicca that Brown poses and Bock doesn't deal with. Kellmeyer's argument from the Pauline epistles against the idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdelene is unique and powerful, and the information he provides about German influences on Wicca is also remarkable. If Dan Brown had known what Kellmeyer knew, he probably would have re-phrased a lot of his book.

Whether or not you get Bock's book, you can't miss out on Kellmeyer's. He wrote it in the same style Brown uses - short chapters, where each chapter addresses a single issue raised on a particular page of the novel. The issues are addressed in the same order they appear in the novel, so it's easy to find the discussion you want, and a lot of the discussions are cross-linked to one another to show you how Brown wove things together. Besides, his writing is snappy and fun, so it's easy to read. Bock and others could take lessons from that.

Rating: 1
Summary: Damage Control
Comment: All one need do is read the blurbs at the beginning of the book to realize that this book isn't so much about refuting anything presented in The Da Vinci Code so much as is it's about doing damage control for what they perceive to be an attack upon the validity of their faith.

One cannot refute the accuracy, or lack thereof, of any historical reference by summing it all up with faith, as I feel this book does by way of the last chapter. The mere mentioning of the word faith in a book claiming to deal with historical accuracies, quite frankly, removes all threads of credibility.

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