We need a book like this right now:

"Pope's new book plugs 'real Jesus'" - CNN.com, 4/13/07

not because of the Da Vinci Code, but because of those liberal historical quests:

For over a century, Biblical scholars have used new critical analytical methods and newly found documents such as the Dead Sea Scrolls to portray Jesus as more human than divine.

"The innumerable fanciful images of Jesus as a revolutionary, as a timid social reformer, as the secret lover of Mary Magdalene, can be put to rest ..."

Personae so tired, only the scandalized still sustain such.

The [Pope's] book was based on "the solid, historical credibility of the Gospels."