Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew

Common card · No. 454472

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew is a gospel about the childhood of Jesus classified as part of New Testament apocrypha. Pseudo-Matthew is part of the genre of infancy gospels that seek to expand and fill out details on the Holy Family, the nativity of Jesus, and Jesus's childhood. The work was among the most popular apocryphal writings in the Middle Ages in the Western, Latin-speaking Christian Church, along with the Gospel of Nicodemus. The work was written in Latin, but was translated to many vernacular languages across Europe in a variety of forms in the Late Middle Ages. Portions of it were used in Jacob of Voragine's Golden Legend, an enormously popular collection of saint hagiographies in the late Middle Ages. In the West, it was the dominant source for pictorial cycles of the Life of Mary. The work changed and expanded over time in an era where manuscripts were hand-copied. Much of the core of the work is an adaptation of the Gospel of James, a Greek infancy gospel that was condemned...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain