It doesn’t much clarify though. Evidently Brown admits he read the book, and that this week he has admitted essentially that he lifted the Jesus was married portion of the story from it.

How much is still not clear, and it is a sticky situation. Fiction is often written on non-fiction bones, and indeed to some extent any piece of fiction has some bit of reality in it. But exactly where this should stop, and how much it is appropriate is a real grey area.

I suspect Dan did indeed stray too far in that direction, but exactly how far too far is - well, I’m glad I’m not on that jury.