All 20 Uses of
Judaism
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Literally, the very center of the Jewish faith.†
Chpt 37-38 *
- As a descendant of the lines of King Solomon and King David, Jesus possessed a rightful claim to the throne of the King of the Jews.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Originally," Langdon said, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun."†
Chpt 55-56
- "Because Jesus was a Jew," Langdon said, taking over while Teabing searched for his book, "and the social decorum during that time virtually forbid a Jewish man to be unmarried.†
Chpt 57-58
- According to Jewish custom, celibacy was condemned, and the obligation for a Jewish father was to find a suitable wife for his son.†
Chpt 57-58
- According to Jewish custom, celibacy was condemned, and the obligation for a Jewish father was to find a suitable wife for his son.†
Chpt 57-58
- A descendant of King Solomon—King of the Jews.†
Chpt 57-58
- There she found safe refuge in the Jewish community.†
Chpt 59-60
- Magdalene's and Sarah's lives were scrutinously chronicled by their Jewish protectors.†
Chpt 59-60
- Remember that Magdalene's child belonged to the lineage of Jewish kings—David and Solomon.†
Chpt 59-60
- For this reason, the Jews in France considered Magdalene sacred royalty and revered her as the progenitor of the royal line of kings.†
Chpt 59-60
- A common form of Jewish cryptogram, the Atbash Cipher was a simple substitution code based on the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet.†
Chpt 71-72
- Jewish scholars and mystics are still finding hidden meanings using Atbash.†
Chpt 71-72
- Langdon's Jewish students always looked flabbergasted when he first told them that the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex.†
Chpt 73-74
- Langdon's Jewish students always looked flabbergasted when he first told them that the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex.†
Chpt 73-74
- Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple housed not only God but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah.†
Chpt 73-74
- The Jewish tetragrammaton YHWH—the sacred name of God—in fact derived from Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.†
Chpt 73-74
- If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that?†
Chpt 81-82
- Built by the Knights Templar in 1446, the chapel is engraved with a mind-boggling array of symbols from the Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Masonic, and pagan traditions.†
Chpt 103-104
- Every surface in the chapel had been carved with symbols—Christian cruciforms, Jewish stars, Masonic seals, Templar crosses, cornucopias, pyramids, astrological signs, plants, vegetables, pentacles, and roses.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(Judaism) the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmudeditor's notes: The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.