Was she Jesus' wife?

One of the central claims of "The Da Vinci Code" is that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and bore him a daughter. Could it be?

The consensus among scholars is no.

The reasons cited are simple. There's no evidence for it in the New Testament Gospels or in the recently discovered gnostic gospels. If Jesus was married, why wouldn't the Gospels mention it? And why would Mary continue to be identified with the town from which she came, Magdala? Most married women at the time were identified as the wife of so and so. If Mary Magdala was married to Jesus, wouldn't she be called Mary the wife of Jesus, just as the Virgin Mary is called Mary the mother of Jesus?

Some have suggested that all Jewish men in the first century were married and that it would have been unnatural for a rabbi, such as Jesus, to be single. In his book, "Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend," Bart Ehrman, a professor of religion at UNC-Chapel Hill, said that is a fallacy. In fact, there were Jewish men who were single, celibate and deeply devout. Recent archaeological findings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, suggest there was an active celibate community of Jewish men called the Essenes.