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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.
Information about the childhood of Jesus was supplied by a number of 2nd-century and later texts, known as infancy gospels, none of which were accepted into the biblical canon. Despite this, some scholars have noted that the very number of surviving infancy manuscripts attests to their continued popularity. [14]
Following the accounts of Jesus' young life, there is a gap of about 18 years in his story in the New Testament. [4] [6] [12] The Finding in the Temple is described in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke. It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a canonical gospel. [13]
The Gospel of James, also known as the Protoevangelium of James, and the Infancy Gospel of James, is an apocryphal gospel most likely written around the year 145 AD, expanding the infancy stories contained in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
In antiquity, the text was called The Book About the Origin of the Blessed Mary and the Childhood of the Savior. [1] Pseudo-Matthew is one of a genre of " Infancy gospels " that seek to fill out the details of the life of Jesus of Nazareth up to the age of 12, which are briefly given in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke .
The Arabic Infancy Gospel is a New Testament apocryphal writing concerning the infancy of Jesus. It may have been compiled as early as the sixth century, and was partly based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas , the Gospel of James , and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew , though much of it is also based on oral tradition.
They picked him up and she was taken aback because Stephen wore a beautiful suit. "And tie," Stephen, 56, piped up. "And my first thought was that he was just beautiful," said Elizabeth.
The idea that prior to his public ministry, Jesus traveled to Kashmir, India, to study at a Tibetan monastery was first suggested by Nicolas Notovitch, in his 1894 hoax The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ. Various references to literature in both the New Testament and the broader Christian apocryphal canon are made.