Category:Jesus Bloodline (subject)
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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), first appeared in O teleutaios peirasmos (1951 Kazantzakis), novel, as part of the last temptation Jesus had to reject on the cross. In the novel marriage and fatherhood were ideal possibilities, not incidents in the actual life of Jesus.
In the early 1970s, The Jesus Scroll (1972 Joyce), arch-fi connected the already established fictional notion that Jesus survived the crucifixion and was married, with the notion of his fatherhood. Joyce 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.
The notion of Jesus' marriage and parenthood provided ground for speculations about his descendants, according to two different trajectories. On one hand, Jesús vivió y murió en Cachemira (1976 Faber-Kaiser), arch-fi book (ET 1977) claimed that Jesus Bloodline developed in India where Jesus spent the last years of his life and married a Kashmir woman. On the other hand, Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982 Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln), arch-fi introduced an elaborated fictional scheme revealing the hidden presence of a Jesus Bloodline in France (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. This was the Holy Grail--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 largely expanded the "French" 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 "French" narrative, and drew attention on the arch-fi authors on which the novel was based. The public interest led to the publication of new revised and expanded editions of their works. The latest version of the "French" narrative is offered by Bloodline (2008 Burgess), arch-fi documentary.
The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007 Jacobovici), arch-fi documentary signaled the return to a more "primitive" version of the narrative. Jacobici 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, cutting short any speculations about the permanence in history of a Jesus Bloodline.
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Pages in category "Jesus Bloodline (subject)"
The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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- (++) Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός = The Last Temptation (1951 Kazantzakis), novel
- The Jesus Scroll (1972 Joyce), arch-fi
- Jesús vivió y murió en Cachemira (Jesus Died in Kashmir / 1976 Faber-Kaiser), arch-fi book
- Rennes-le-Château et l'énigme de l'or maudit (1989 Markale), arch-fi
- (+) The Woman with the Alabaster Jar (1993 Starbird), arch-fi
- Bloodline of the Holy Grail (1996 Gardner), arch-fi
- The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine (1998 Starbird), arch-fi
- Genesis of the Grail Kings (1999 Gardner), arch-fi
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- Rex Deus (2000 Hopkins / Simmans / Wallace-Murphy), arch-fi book
- Magdalene's Lost Legacy (2003 Starbird), arch-fi
- The Church of Mary Magdalene (2004 Markale), arch-fi (English ed.)
- The Magdalene Legacy (2005 Gardner), arch-fi
- Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile (2005 Starbird), arch-fi
- (+) The Da Vinci Code (2006 Howard), feature film
- (++) The Expected One (2006 McGowan), novel
- The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007 Jacobovici), documentary
- The Rozabal Line (2007 Sanghi), novel
- Jesus after the Crucifixion: From Jerusalem to Rennes-le-Château (2007 Simmans), arch-fi book
- Bloodline (2008 Burgess), documentary
- The Grail Enigma (2008 Gardner), arch-fi book
Media in category "Jesus Bloodline (subject)"
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