The Archko Volume

I just learned of an interesting book, the Archko Volume. Wikipedia tells us "The Archko Volume is regarded as fraudulent by all religious scholars." However, the book is very interesting, I've just started in on it today. The account of Jesus in chapter five, which purports to be related by someone who spoke with Mary and Joseph, bears a strong resemblance to myself. Lazy, they said. Careless, they said. Won't amount to anything. This really hit me -

"Massalian is a man of very deep thought and most profound judgment. All his life he has made the Scriptures his study. He, too, is a good judge of human nature, and he is satisfied that Jesus is the Christ. He said that Jesus seemed to understand the prophecy by intuition. I asked him where Jesus was taught to read the prophecy. He said that his mother told him that Jesus could read from the beginning; that no one had ever taught him to read.”
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My mother claims I learned to read at two by watching Sesame Street. I don't tell people this because it sounds like ridiculous boasting. She says I came to her once when I was eight, and said "I have to talk to you about something, and it's very serious."
    "What is it, Ry?"
    "Darren can't read."
  "It's OK Ry, he's only four."
​   My mom is intelligent, she was a computer programmer for Hallmark Cards back in the 1960s, when very few women did that kind of thing. But she is not intellectually ambitious. She had no reason to invent such a story, and she is an honest person. I'll return with more comments after I get through the book.