Infancy Gospel of Thomas

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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Infancy of Jesus or Childhood of Jesus, the Paidika tou Iesou or Paidika (Greek), and abbreviated as Inf. Gos. Thom. or IGT) is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus. Together with the Gospel of James, it was one of the earliest and most influential sources detailing the activities and life of the young Jesus, although neither are included in the New Testament canon. Its creation is generally dated to the second century. The oldest extant fragmentary writing is in Koine Greek and dates to the fourth or fifth century; Latin and Syriac attestations to a short form exist from the fifth or sixth century; and an 11th-century manuscript in Greek (Codex Sabaiticus) contains the earliest extant long form of the work. Variants flourished that expanded the infancy gospel by combining it with other stories in larger works and anthologies; the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew is one example that proved popular in the Latin-speaking Western Church...

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