Review: Credibility
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2014
NOT so much. This is stretching some imagination, and hardly supported by any credible evidence. Interesting reading, that may have been the basis, in part, for some of the story line of some movies. IF you mix some truth, even 99%, into the thesis, it is still a misguided epistle. I submit, there were many factions of superstitious, ignorant and uneducated folk back in that day, giving rise to many variations of stories passed down by oral re-interpretation, and finally reduced to writing by some cleric hundreds of years after the fact. Having made some study of Biblical material for fifty years or more, and keeping an open mind to alternative perspectives, even allowing that I believe all three individuals were present and interactive with Christ Jesus, Son of GOD, it is a real stretch to give credibility to this content. Granted, new revelations come along everyday, albeit kept from the public, i.e. the Dead Sea Scrolls, for decades, I would have to say even Thomas the Doubter would not buy into this portrayal. There were four or more Mary(s) mentioned in Bible stories, in the New testaments, and there are a myriad of opinions as to which did what, or when, or why.I can not in good conscience recommend this as a scollorerly book, but only as speculative writing, and perhaps an entertaining novelette.