Experts found the earliest recods of Jesus' childhood thanks to a 2,000 manuscript.
The earliest known copy of an incredible story about Jesus performing a miracle as a child has been discovered scrawled on an ancient Egyptian manuscript.
The 2,000-year-old papyrus - a material that predates paper - tells the lesser-known story of the 'vivification of the sparrows,' when the five-year-old Messiah is said to have turned clay pigeons into live birds, a tale also referred to as the 'second miracle'.
Amazing.
The original story of Jesus' miracle is thought to have been written around the 2nd Century as part of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a book detailing Jesus of Nazareth's youth that was ultimately excluded from the Bible.
But until this discovery, the earliest written example of the gospel was from the 11th Century.
The manuscript was found at Hamburg State and University Library.
Until now, the papyrus had lay unnoticed at the Hamburg State and University Library in Hamburg, Germany.
Experts told DailyMail.com they stumbled upon the papyri while analyzing manuscripts and noticed Jesus' name in the text.
All those years and no one found the manuscript until now.
Another friend of mine who is a seminary graduate as well as a retired Army LtC who currently teaches US military history for ROTC cadets had this to say:
ReplyDelete"I am extremely skeptical of any reports of Jesus' childhood except where it appears in the Bible. Also, Jesus lived in the first century, so this fragment comes from 4 or 5 centuries after the event. Then again, it doesn't add or take anything away from the Gospel, so we can speculate away."
Forgot to add the name/alias to the above comment.
DeleteLoki
Entirely possible. So far away, who knows what happened?
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