The Greensboro News & Record reports:

First, it was Roman Catholic and Protestant conservatives, protesting that [Dan] Brown’s characters inaccurately malign Christianity. Now, more liberal thinkers likewise say Brown’s claim to present facts through fiction is itself fictional and misleads readers.

The leader of this second wave is Bart Ehrman, religion chairman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in “Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code” (Oxford University Press). Ehrman is an expert in early church documents that are central to Brown’s plot.

The article contains numerous examples from Prof. Ehrman on the historical deficiencies (to put it mildly) of Brown’s book ? something that we discussed in The Locker Room last year, here, here, here, and here.