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IT sounds like it could be a chapter straight from the pages of the international best-seller The Da Vinci Code. Just like Dan Brown's book, the dusty document contains long forgotten insights into the history and relationships of Jesus Christ. Now scholars at a Welsh college believe t..."
IT sounds like it could be a chapter straight from the pages of the international best-seller The Da Vinci Code. Just like Dan Brown's book, the dusty document contains long forgotten insights into the history and relationships of Jesus Christ. Now scholars at a Welsh college believe they have unearthed their own version of the Da Vinci code with the discovery of a 400-year-old book. Entitled The Genealogy of Jesus Christ, it has spent the past 70 years locked in the dusty depths of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Peter Hogan, the warden at Llandovery College, happened on the school's lost document whiletrawling through archives.
He said, "I was absolutely flabbergasted. "There isn't anybody I know who hasn't read The Da Vinci Code, and we've found the sort of thing that would have been a major part of the plot." A spokesman for Catholic newspaper The Tablet believed the find could be extremely significant. Philip Crispin, who writes for the national publication, said, "I think people should be excited about it because it sounds a fantastic find. "Certainly if it is a genuine document, and not some sort of 19th century hoax, it is extremely interesting."Dan Brown's novel has generated a huge amount of new interest in religion and the Bible, even though a lot of his ideaswere taken from earlier books."The leather-bound, hand-written book by William Spenser has nearly 600 A3-sized pages, split into two sections.One is about, "the names, people and empires recorded in the old and New Testaments".The other is titled "biographical reference of old Bible stories".It is an alphabetical way to find a seemingly endless list of religious characters.Mr Hogan said, "It has details on everybody in the Bible, who they were married to where they came from and their family trees."The college has always had a history of owning many interesting books, but this one had slipped through the net."We have a section in the library that has some of our books in but I think....
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IT sounds like it could be a chapter straight from the pages of the international best-seller The Da Vinci Code. Just like Dan Brown's book, the dusty document contains long forgotten insights into the history and relationships of Jesus Christ. Now scholars at a Welsh college believe they have unearthed their own version of the Da Vinci code with the discovery of a 400-year-old book. Entitled The Genealogy of Jesus Christ, it has spent the past 70 years locked in the dusty depths of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Peter Hogan, the warden at Llandovery College, happened on the school's lost document whiletrawling through archives. 
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