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 woman).

Cf. also Married Jesus, and Jesus Cloning.

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.

The Jesus Scroll (1972 Joyce), arch-fi claimed to have found evidence in a lost scroll that Jesus survived the crucifixion, was actually married with Mary Magdalene and had a child. Jesus and his family eventually perished in the siege of Masada.

In the early 1980s, Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982 Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln), arch-fi introduced 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 Holy Grail was not a cup but the secret of Jesus Bloodline.

In the following years, arch-fi authors such as Jean Markale, Margareth Starbird, [[Laurence Gardner]], and Graham Simmans expanded the narrative, offering more details about the circumstances which led the royal descendants of Jesus to Rennes-le-Château, France and the trouble they had to experience to protect the secret of their existence.

The international success of The Da Vinci Code (2003 Brown), novel popularized the work of the arch-fi authors on which the novel was based and led to the publication of new revised and expanded editions of their work. The latest version of the fictional story is that offered by the documentary Bloodline (2008 Burgess), arch-fi.

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