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The fragment, which comes from late ancient Egypt, is about 11 by 5 centimeters and has 13 lines of Greek text, with about 10 letters per line.
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers in Germany have found the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. This apocryphal fragment, which dates back to the 4th or 5th century AD, offers a glimpse into the childhood of Jesus as depicted in this ancient text.
In the early days of Christianity, different communities wrote their own accounts of Christ's life, but many of these didn’t make it into the New Testament. Those early texts that weren't deemed canonical by the early Church are called apocryphal gospels.Parts of these texts sometimes matched up with the official, canonical gospels, but most of the time they did not.
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In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers in Germany have found the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. This apocryphal fragment, which dates back to the 4th or 5th century AD, offers a glimpse into the childhood of Jesus as depicted in this ancient text.
In the early days of Christianity, different communities wrote their own accounts of Christ's life, but many of these didn’t make it into the New Testament. Those early texts that weren't deemed canonical by the early Church are called apocryphal gospels.Parts of these texts sometimes matched up with the official, canonical gospels, but most of the time they did not.
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Earliest known “Infancy Gospel” of Thomas fragment found
The fragment, which comes from late antique Egypt, is about 11 by 5 centimeters and has thirteen lines of Greek text, with about ten letters per line.
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