So, I'm sick of seeing Sarah Palin at the top of my page, so here's something from the earliest epic tradition in world literature...well, the end product of that tradition at least. So, here, from the Standard Babylonian Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh is the quote of the day: Enkidu had defiled his body so pure, his legs stood still, though his herd was in motion. Enkidu was weakened, could not run as before, but now he had reason, adn wide understanding. (Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 1, lines 199-203; trans. Andrew George) Enkidu, created directly from clay, a replica of the original human, was a wild, animal-like man. At the same time, he was powerful, the only match in strength for the two-thirds divine Gilgamesh (how he's two-thirds divine, I have no clue...and no specialist's answer has been satisfying to my mind). This replica of the original man is also Gilgamesh's mirror, his alter-ego, a second self. In this scene, the wild animalistic man, who communes...
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Secret Scrolls: Revelations from the Lost Gospel Novels by Robert M. Price
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Scrolls-Revelations-Gospel-Novels/dp/1610970756/ref=cm_wl_huc_item
Price's book mentions Kazantzakis' Last Temptation but does not devote a chapter to it, because K. did not mention the discovery of any additional ancient scrolls.
Aside from Kazantzakis' work, one might try The Prophet by Gibran, that has been translated into many languages, and even parodized in a little book titled The Profit.
There's also a true story about a psychiatrist who was treating three people in the same asylum who all thought they were Jesus Christ. The Three Christs of .... (I forget the rest of the title).
And speaking of people who think they are Jesus look up "Jerusalem syndrome."