The Archko Volume
The Archko Volume or Archko Library is a 19th-century volume containing what purports to be a series of reports from Jewish and pagan sources contemporary with Jesus that relate to the biblical texts describing his life. The work went through a number of versions and has remained in print ever since. The texts are otherwise unknown, and the author was convicted by an ecclesiastical court of falsehood and plagiarism.The Archko Volume is regarded as fraudulent by all religious scholars. The medievalist scholar M.R. James described the work as a "ridiculous and disgusting American book.