Here’s a new resource you should know about:

Reinventing Jesus: What The Da Vinci Code and Other Novel Speculations Don't Tell You (Kregel) released last week. This is the only Da Vinci Code book that gives a sustained argument about the deity of Christ (a key issue Christians should be concerned with in Dan Brown's book), and the only one that even addresses the transmission of the text of the New Testament. You can see several reviews, check out the table of contents, and even read excerpts at www.reinventingjesus.info.

Reinventing Jesus is authored by three Dallas Seminary graduates: J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, and Daniel B. Wallace. I mentioned Dan a few months back on this blog when he pretty soundly refuted claims made in Misquoting Jesus (which is still perched atop the religion book charts). While Reinventing Jesus is the most substantial book to interact with The Da Vinci Code, it is also written for people without long strings of initials after their names. And it targets both believers and unbelievers.

Dan spoke three times at Watermark Community Church in Dallas last Sunday. I plan to link you to the Watermark podcast as soon as it’s out. I’m told Watermark ordered 400 books for Sunday and 320 were sold after the first service.

This book is not just something to read in the next week thanks to the hype related to Dan Brown’s book and Sony’s movie. It’s stuff every believer needs to know any time from some of the people most qualified to tell us. How did we get our text? How do we know we got the right books? How do we know the text got copied correctly through the years?

And while we’re on the subject of stuff relating to The Da Vinci Code, here’s a link to something I posted last year about Mary M in case you missed it.