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Primary Sources

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Secondary Sources

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Barber, Malcolm The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple, (Cambridge University Press: 1994)
Barber, Malcolm The Trial of the Templars, (Cambridge University Press: 1978)
Barber, Richard The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, (Harvard University Press: 2004)
Barney, Robert Knight “This Great Symbol: The Tricks of History” (Olympic Review, No. 301, 1992, pp.627-31)
Chaudry, Kashaf (dir) The Real Da Vinci Code (DVD) (Channel Four Film: 2006)
Dungan, David L. Constantine’s Bible: Politics And the Making of the New Testament, (Fortress Press: 2006)
Eco, Umberto Foucault’s Pendulum, (Ballantine: 1989)
Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deidre Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, (The Feminist Press: 1973)
Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, (Oxford University Press: 2003)
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Ehrman, Bart D. Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, (Oxford University Press: 2004)
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Fredriksen, Paula From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, (Yale Nota Bene: 2000)
Garlow, James L.; Jones, Timothy Paul; Williams, April The Da Vinci Codebreaker: An Easy-to-use Factchecker for Truth Seekers, (Bethany House: 2006)
Haag, Michael; Haag, Veronica; McConnachie, James The Rough Guide to The Da Vinci Code, (Rough Guides: 2005)
Harley, David “Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch” (Social History of Medicine 3 (1990), pp. 1-26.)
Johnson, Paul History of Christianity, (Touchstone: 1979)
Layton, Bentley The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations, (Anchor Press: 1995)
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Partner, Peter The Knights Templar and their Myth (Destiny Books: 1990)
Purkiss, Diane The Witch in History, (Routledge Press: 1997)
Putnam, Bill The Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau: A Mystery Solved, (Sutton Publishing: 2005)
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Rubenstein, Richard E. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome, (Harvest Books: 2000)
Rudolph, Kurt Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism, (Harper: 1987)
Vermes, Geza Jesus the Jew: An Historian’s Reading of the Gospels, (Fortress Press: 1981)
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New Age and Other Amateur Works Referred To

Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, (Summit Books: 1986)
Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard; Lincoln, Henry Holy Blood Holy Grail, (Dell Books: 1982)
Burstein, Daniel (ed.) Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorised Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code, (Weidenfield & Nicholson: 2004)
Eisler, Riane The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, our Future, (Harper: 1987)
Freke, Timothy; Gandy, Peter Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians, (Harmony: 2001)
Graves, Kersey The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors, (Lushena Books: 1875, 2004)
Hislop, Alexander The Two Babylons: Or The Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife, (Nuvision Publications: 1858, 2006)
Picknett, Lynn; Prince, Clive The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, (Touchstone Books: 1998)
Picknett, Lynn; Prince, Clive The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth about Extraterrestrial life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, (Berkley Trade: 2001)
Starbird, Margaret The Woman With The Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail, (Bear & Co.: 1993)
Starbird, Margaret The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine, (Bear & Co.: 1998)
Stone, Merlin When God was a Woman, (Harvest Books: 1978)
Woodrow, Ralph Babylon Mystery Religion: Ancient & Modern, (Self-published: 1981)