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This article explores various literary forgeries that are significantly related to Judaism, including cases where there is no scholarly consensus, such as The Epistle of Menachem of Hebron. The list also covers works that quote fictitious sources, as done by Moses Botarel.

While this article focuses on literary forgeries related to Judaism, several related topics are outside its scope. These include allegations of forgery where the scholarly consensus is that the work is authentic, alterations and interpolations that can be either malicious or sloppy, censorship, hagiography, false histories, inscriptions, colophons, plagiarism, and material forgeries in art and archaeology.

Examples of forgeries from various time periods are discussed, such as those from the Second Temple period, Middle Ages, Early modern period, and Late modern period. Some notable forgeries include the quotes of Hazal in Pugio Fidei, the Zohar, quotes of Geonic works by Moses Botarel, and the Book of Gad the Seer.

Despite the focus on literary forgeries, it is important to acknowledge the existence of material forgeries in art, archaeology, and other fields. For example, Cecil Roth wrote about the increase in forgeries in Jewish ritual art and the circulation of forged shekels since the Renaissance period. This category of forgery also includes Torah scrolls and forged divorce documents (Get), which are cataloged in the National Library of Israel catalog and marked as forged.

Book of Gad the Seer
Book of Gad the Seer is ostenibly an ancient book of the Bible, but appears to in fact have been authored by Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort in 1756.

Moses Hillel, in Scrolls of Cochin: Between "Divrei Gad Ha'Chozeh" , Hillel delves into the details of van Dort's fabrications.