Title: Ow...
Review: Anybody who calls this book "historical" or "well-researched" has not had a ton of experience with research in general or early Christianity in particular. Holy Blood takes politico-theological metaphors from the first and second century CE and combines them with easily-marketable conspiracy theories and calls it revolutionary. Their research was horrible (at least as it applied to the life of Jesus and Gnosticism), which should have been obvious by the way they would start out "skeptical" of some finding and two pages later be taking it as Gospel (ha) fact. More New Testament scholars should read this kind of pulp so we know what's going on in the popular culture and can find ways to actually educate people.
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