Infancy Gospel of Thomas

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is a collection of stories about Jesus' childhood, presenting him as a miraculous but sometimes petulant child.|||Earliest Greek manuscript: P.Hamb.Graec. 1011 (4th–5th c., discovered 2024). Syriac, Latin, and other versions.|||Composed in Greek in the 2nd century CE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Presents Jesus' childhood miracles, including cursing playmates and bringing clay birds to life. Important for understanding popular devotion and the development of infancy traditions.|||Burke, T. De infantia Iesu evangelium Thomae graece. Brepols, 2010.|||Elliott, J. K. The Apocryphal New Testament. Oxford, 1993.|||Berkes, L. & Macedo, G. N. " P.Hamb.Graec. 1011: The Earliest Manuscript of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas." ZPE, 2024.|||Infancy Gospel of Thomas — Early Christian Writings|https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/infancythomas.html|Full translation and scholarly resources.;; Infancy Gospel of Thomas — Sacred Texts|https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/lbob/lbob04.htm|Public-domain translation.|||" When this boy Jesus was five years old, he was playing at the ford of a stream, and he gathered the flowing waters into pools." — Infancy Gospel of Thomas 2:1