The fraud was immediately exposed after publication by the newspapers. Unfortunately newspapers publish ephemeral news while the Archko Volume kept on being published. In 1931, Professor Edgar J. Goodspeed of the University of Chicago published a book about biblical frauds and hoaxes which retells the Archko story for the benefit of another generation. Goodspeed goes to some lengths to prove the Archko fraud (more lengths than it deserves to my mind).

Now, more than 100 years after it’s original publication, the Archko Volume is still in print and Goodspeed’s book is not. While Goodspeed’s best known work, Modern Apocrypha, is out of print, but still under copyright, an earlier work entitled Strange New Gospels is beyond copyright.