THE DA VINCI CODE Author Roundtable

FaithfulReader.com has brought together 11 authors who have all written books in response to Dan Brown's controversial 2003 novel, THE DA VINCI CODE. Richard Abanes, Darrell L. Bock, Dan Burstein, James L. Garlow, Peter Jones, Steve Kellmeyer, Erwin W. Lutzer, Sandra Miesel, Carl E. Olson, Amy Welborn and Ben Witherington III discuss why they believe so many people have accepted this fictional thriller as fact. They also address some of the claims Brown makes in the book about Christianity and explain the potential damage that his conclusions could inflict on a person's faith.

Richard Abanes

As a nationally recognized authority on cults and religions, Richard Abanes has spent more than ten years in the field as an author and journalist. In 1997 he received The Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America for his "outstanding work on intolerance in North America." Among his dozen-plus books is the bestselling HARRY POTTER AND THE BIBLE.





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Darrell L. Bock

Darrell L. Bock is Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture for the Seminary's Center for Christian Leadership. His special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, and gospels studies. As well as being a corresponding editor for Christianity Today and past President of the Evangelical Theological Society, Bock serves as an elder at Trinity Fellowship Church in Richardson, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Sally, and their three children.



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Dan Burstein

Dan Burstein is founder and managing member of Millennium Technology Ventures Advisors, a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in innovative new technology companies.

For the last decade, Mr. Burstein has been an active investor in more than 25 technology companies. He currently serves on the board of directors of five of them. As the chief investment officer and managing partner of the PS Capital funds, he invested $12 million of capital from 1997 to 1999 in a portfolio whose publicly-traded company value was more than $300 million by 2000. Earlier, Mr. Burstein was senior advisor at The Blackstone Group, one of Wall Street's leading private merchant banks.

Mr. Burstein is also a prominent corporate strategy consultant and has served as an advisor to CEOs, senior management teams, and global corporations including Sony, Toyota, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

Working as a freelance journalist in the 1980s, Mr. Burstein published more than 1,000 articles in more than 200 different publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and many others in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He also served as a consultant to ABC News, CBS News, TIME Magazine, and other leading media organizations. His article on the future of science and technology in China for Omni Magazine was the winner of an Overseas Press Club Award in 1985. Burstein is a frequent guest commentator on various CNN, CNBC and Fox News programs and has appeared on media programs as diverse as "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Larry King Live," "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," and "Marketplace."

He is an award-winning journalist and author of six prior books on global economics and technology. His 1988 book, YEN!, which focused on the rise of Japanese financial power, was an international bestseller in more than 20 countries and foreign languages. His 1995 book, ROAD WARRIORS, was one of the first books to analyze the impact of the Internet and digital technology on business and society.

Recently, Mr. Burstein developed a new publishing enterprise, Squibnocket Press, which will shortly launch its first title, THE BEST THINGS EVER SAID ABOUT: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Internet Economy. Additional "Best Things Ever Said About" titles in 2004-5 will include new titles on the future of the Internet, Blogs & Blogging and Nanotechnology. Burstein has often written about mysteries and complexities of the future. SECRETS OF THE CODE: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code is his first book that focuses on the mysteries and complexities of the past.

Dan Burstein is married to Julie O'Connor, a photographer, and their son David is an aspiring playwright. They live in Weston, CT.



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James L. Garlow

Dr. James Garlow is the pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church, a congregation of 3,500 in San Diego, California. Among his degrees are a MDiv from Asbury Seminary, a Master's in Theology from Princeton Seminary and a Ph.D. from Drew University. He is the author of HOW GOD SAVED CIVILIZATION, A CHRISTIAN'S RESPONSE TO ISLAM, and many other works.



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Peter Jones

Dr. Peter Jones holds a MDiv degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a ThM from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary in Escondido, California, and is the author of numerous books, including THE GNOSTIC EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.



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