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List of religious hoaxes

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This is a list of hoaxes related to religion.

In Christianity

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Mormonism

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  • Kinderhook plates – engraved metal plates that were allegedly discovered in Kinderhook, Illinois in 1843, but were actually created by three men attempting to test Mormon leader Joseph Smith into "translating" the engravings. One of the men later admitted to the ruse and modern dating confirmed they are 19th-century forgeries.[25][26]
  • Salamander letter – document alleging certain visions of Mormon leader Joseph Smith that were at odds with the Church's views which proved to have been created by Mark Hofmann in the 1980s. Part of a larger trove of fake documents that led to Hofmann being referred to as "unquestionably the most skilled forger this country has ever seen". When threatened with exposure, he used pipe bombs to kill two people in his attempt to keep the forgery a secret and is currently serving life in prison.[27]

In Hinduism

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In Judaism

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In Islam

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In Paganism

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  • Book of Veles – text engraved on wooden planks alleged to date from the 9th and 10th century which document ancient Slavic religion and history. The claim states that the planks were found in 1919, transcribed and then lost in 1941. Largely considered to be a forgery created around the middle of the 20th century, it is nonetheless seen as a sacred text by some Slavic neopagans.[32][33]

References

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  2. ^ Burke, Tony (2017). Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha: Proceedings from the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-1532603730.
  3. ^ Goodspeed, Edgar J. (1937). New Chapters in New Testament Study. New York: The Macmillan Company. p. 201.
  4. ^ Metzger, Bruce M.; Coogan, Michael D., eds. (1993). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. p. 41. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195046458.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-504645-8.
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  6. ^ Burke, Tony (2017). Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha: Proceedings from the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-5326-0373-0.
  7. ^ Lutz, Cora E. (1975). "The Letter of Lentulus Describing Christ". The Yale University Library Gazette. 50 (2): 91–97. JSTOR 40858588.
  8. ^ "Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (1836)". The Public Domain Review. 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  9. ^ Healy, Róisín (2003). "The Intellectual Critique: Gate-crashers of the Public Sphere". The Jesuit Specter in Imperial Germany. pp. 173–193. doi:10.1163/9789004474321_010. ISBN 978-0-391-04194-3.
  10. ^ "Monita Secreta". Catholic Encyclopedia. New Advent.
  11. ^ Hurtado, Larry (24 August 2011). "Hoaxes Ancient and Modern – Hurtado Once More". The Bible and Culture. Retrieved 2019-02-01.[self-published source?]
  12. ^ Nickell, Joe (24 May 2005). "Voice of Reason: Exposing the Da Vinci Hoax". Live Science. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  13. ^ Schorn, Daniel (27 April 2007). "The Priory Of Sion: Is The "Secret Organization" Fact Or Fiction?". CBS News. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  14. ^ McDonald, Thomas L. (14 August 2018). "'The Last Pope' is Junk History". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  15. ^ "The Prophecy of the Popes (15th Century)". The Public Domain Review. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  16. ^ "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's Mystical Theology". Study.com. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  17. ^ Corrigan, Kevin; Harrington, L. Michael (2018), "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2019-02-01
  18. ^ "Shroud of Turin | History, Description, & Authenticity". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  19. ^ Rogers, Raymond N. (January 2005). "Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the shroud of turin". Thermochimica Acta. 425 (1–2): 189–194. Bibcode:2005TcAc..425..189R. doi:10.1016/j.tca.2004.09.029.
  20. ^ Schafersman, Steven D. (8 February 2005). "A Skeptical Response to "Studies on the Radiocarbon Sample from the Shroud of Turin"". llanoestacado.org. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  21. ^ Burke, Tony (2013). Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?: The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 80. ISBN 978-1621895190.
  22. ^ Swenson, Kyle (13 April 2018). "'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' now wants his day in court". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  23. ^ Shellnutt, Kate (12 April 2018). "Tyndale Sued by Boy Who Didn't Come Back from Heaven". Christianity Today. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  24. ^ Theroux, Marcel (9 January 2018). "The post-truth Gospel: Marcel Theroux on why a Russian may have forged a tale about Jesus in India". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  25. ^ Kimball, Stanley B. (August 1981). "Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a Nineteenth-Century Hoax". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  26. ^ Peters, Jason Frederick (Summer 2003). "The Kinderhook Plates: Examining a Nineteenth-Century Hoax". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 96 (2): 130–145. JSTOR 40193471.
  27. ^ Lindsey, Robert (11 February 1987). "Dealer in Mormon Fraud Called a Master Forger". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  28. ^ Rothstein, Edward (21 April 2006). "The Anti-Semitic Hoax That Refuses to Die". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  29. ^ "A Hoax of Hate: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  30. ^ "Surah al-Nurayn & Surah al-Wilayah: Their Authenticity & Literary Style". www.islamic-awareness.org. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  31. ^ Marcinkowski, Muhammad Ismail (March 2001). "Some Reflections On Alleged Twelver Sh?'ite Attitudes Toward the Integrity of the Qur'ān*". The Muslim World. 91 (1–2): 137–154. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.2001.tb03711.x.
  32. ^ Strmiska, Michael (2005). Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, Oxford, EN: ABC-CLIO. pp. 217–219. ISBN 978-1851096084.
  33. ^ "Book of Veles – a Forgery or a Sacred Text?". Meet the Slavs. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 2019-02-01.