''The Tomb of God'' is a 1996 speculative non-fiction book by Richard Andrews and Paul Schellenberger, which charted as a number one bestseller. It claimed that the body of
Jesus Christ was reburied in the 12th century on
Pech-le-Cardou (Mount Cardou) in the
Rennes-le-Chateau. They arrived at this idea through tracing map references within the parchments described in the book ''
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (published as ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln.
The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unoffici ...
''. However, the authors do not succeed in locating the tomb or evidence relating to it on the mountain itself.
The book became the focus of a
BBC 2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
documentary "The History of a Mystery" shown in September 1996, in which the authors faced difficult questions over their methods and assumptions. The theory is not taken seriously by academic scholars.
[Daniel Clark Dead Or Alive- 2007 - - p105 "In The Tomb of God,1 Paul Schellenberger and Richard Andrews proposed a conspiracy theory to beat them all. They suggested that Jesus' bones were removed in the twelfth century and now lie buried in south-western France, under tons of ..."]
References
Bibliography
* Richard Andrews, Paul Schellenberger, ''The Tomb of God: The Body of Jesus and The Solution To A 2000-year-old Mystery'' (London: Little, Brown, 1996 ).
1996 non-fiction books
Books about Jesus
Pseudoarchaeological texts
Alleged tombs of Jesus
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