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Originally Posted by CW Johnson
On the subject ‘The Son of Man’ being not an uncommon trope.
I beg to differ. It may have been done, but nowhere near as mainstream as the vampire trope before Stephanie Meyer wrote the Twilight series...
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I don’t mean that to belittle your book with that comment—truly new ideas in fiction are few and far between. Just like with any other reading recommendation thread, it was a statement that if you liked plot element
x, here are more books with the same plot element that you may or may not like. And, while you are right that there isn’t a whole publishing niche built around “cloning Jesus” books like there is for “vampire romance” books (which I believe was really jump-started by Anne Rice, not Stephanie Meyer) it is still far from a novel novel idea.
See:
The Jesus Thief
The Christ Clone trilogy
The Divinity Gene
Christ Clone
The Christ Project
Cloning Christ
Cloning the Messenger
Children of the Shroud
There’s even a movie in production:
The Gospel According to Jimmy, based on a French book called "
L'evangile De Jimmy."