book should have been classified as pseudohistorical due to its speculative and inadequately sourced nature.4 Nevertheless, these same concepts would be successfully borrowed and fictionalized twenty years later by author Dan Brown in his infamous thriller, The Da Vinci Code, in which he even references Baigent’s work by name.5 On June 26, 2000, ABC News aired a two-hour prime-time special titled The Search for Jesus hosted by the late Peter Jennings. The controversial program was greeted with high