Midway through its 1993 book, I discovered, the Jesus Seminar reported a related finding: “Jesus did not advocate celibacy. A majority of the Fellows doubted, in fact, that Jesus himself was celibate. They regard it as probable that he had a special relationship with at least one woman, Mary of Magdala.” A decade before The Da Vinci Code—and two decades before the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife—a group that counted King as its leading light was publicly broadcasting its view that Jesus was married, possibly to Mary Magdalene.
