Random House, publishers of fiction bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” are protesting the release of a new non-fiction book, “Breaking the Da Vinci Code” to be published by Thomas Nelson, a top Christian publisher.
New from the Porterville (CA)Record reports a complaint has been filed in court contending that the publisher has a First Amendment right to use the Da Vinci phrase in the title and to publish what is essentially a critique of Dan Brown’s book. The plot of “The Da Vinci Code” suggests that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and that they had a daughter.
“All I wanted to do is put the record in front of people,” said “Breaking” author Darrell Bock, a New Testament scholar at the Dallas Theological Seminary. “It isn’t that I don’t think Jesus was married. It is just that most everybody doesn’t think that Jesus was married.”
UPDATE 02/27/04: Random House gives up, story in the Tennessean .
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