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<\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>At some point I\u2019ll post a listener\u2019s guide, if necessary, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/11\/50-ways-to-forge-a-gospel.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the song \u201c50 Ways to Forge a Gospel,\u201d which I shared here recently<\/a>, the YouTube video of which I\u2019ve embedded above. It is full of references to specific forgeries, pseudepigraphies, novels, and other kinds of Jesus literature both ancient and modern, both canonical and extracanonical. Did you catch all the references? Did you get which books are being referred to? Share the ones you have successfully identified in the comments. I\u2019m curious whether readers \u2013 individually or collectively \u2013 caught all of them!<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, as I said, I\u2019ll list them line by line in a later post. 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