Religion:Gospel of Josephus

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Short description: Modern forgery created by Luigi Moccia in 1927 to raise publicity for his novel; written in Greek

The Gospel of Josephus was a modern pseudepigraph created by Luigi Moccia to raise publicity for a novel Moccia had written.[1][2] The manuscript was written by Moccia in Greek, but was proven to be a hoax based on the modernity of the language and the form of the manuscript (loose sheets written on one side only).[1][3] The Gospel was attributed to Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian of the first century CE. The gospel was created in 1927.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Ryan, Donald P. (2000). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Biblical Mysteries. Penguin. p. 227. ISBN 9780028638317. https://books.google.com/books?id=qCiHzHR2pAYC&pg=PA227. 
  2. Metzger, Bruce Manning; Coogan, Michael David (1993). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 9780195046458. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195046458. 
  3. Goodspeed, Edgar J.. New Chapters in New Testament Study. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-258-03291-3. https://archive.org/stream/newchaptersinnew008790mbp/newchaptersinnew008790mbp_djvu.txt. Retrieved 25 July 2012.  (search in the on-line text for "Gospel of Josephus")