[CW Johnson]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

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."

Oops. I certainly did take on a defensive posture. I apologize.