Category:Jesus Bloodline (subject)

Jesus Bloodline refers to a series of fictional speculations about the existence of Jesus' descendants from his marriage with Mary Magdalene (or other women), or as the result of a DNA cloning experiment.

Overview

The idea that Jesus fathered children (from his marriage with Martha and Mary), appeared in O teleutaios peirasmos (1951 Kazantzakis), novel, as part of the last temptation Jesus had to reject on the cross.

Jesus & Mary Magdalene Bloodline

In the 1970s, such an idea became part of an elaborated fictional scheme revealing the hidden presence of a Jesus Bloodline in history (from his marriage with Mary Magdalene) and the eternal struggle between the Church and the Priory of Sion to suppress/defend the truth, until contemporary times.

The international success of The Da Vinci Code (2003 Brown), novel popularized the arch-fi work of authors such as Baigent and Starbird.

In 2007 the arch-fi documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007 Jacobovici), arch-fi announced the discovery of the burial place of Jesus and his family, including the remains of his "wife" Mary Magdalene and their child.

The cloning of Jesus

As soon as the possibility of cloning was scientifically advanced, there were numerous speculations about the possibility of "resurrecting" long-dead spiritual or political leaders. The horror movie "Boys from Brazil" (1978) dealt with an attempt by neo-Nazis to clone Hitler.

A 1999 episode of The Outer Limits first explored the issue of cloning Jesus.

In 2000 a hoax from a group called "The Second Coming Project" announced on the Web their intention to clone Jesus by 2001. For some years the group kept apologizing for the delay, attributed to unspecified technical problems, while reiterating their commitment to find "authentic" DNA remains of Jesus.

In 2004 an episode of the fictional TV series ReGenesis dealt with the attempt by a fanatic religious sect to clone Jesus (see The Face of God (2004 Jennings), TV film).

See also "In His Image: Book One of the CloneChrist Trilogy" by James BeauSeigneur; "The Jesus Thief," by J.R. Lankford; and "Cloning Christ," by Peter Senese and Robert Geis.