A newly-deciphered manuscript dating back more than 1,600 years has been identified as the earliest known account of Jesus Christ’s childhood. The manuscript, written on papyrus in either the ...

A newly deciphered manuscript dating back 1,600 years has been determined to be the oldest record of Jesus Christ's childhood ... The document was written in Greek, Macedo said, confirming ...

It has been identified by researchers as the earliest surviving writings about Jesus Christ's childhood. Photo courtesy of Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg/Public Domain Mark 1.0 30,104 ...

dating back to the 4th or 5th century – that’s about 1,600 years – has been determined by researchers to be the oldest and earliest surviving record of Jesus’ childhood, according to ...

GERMANY (WKRC) - Scientists have discovered the oldest surviving copy of a written account of the childhood of Jesus in a forgotten and decaying manuscript. Papyrologists, scientists who study ...

Now, a pair of researchers have determined that the ancient Greek text written on the fragment comes from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (IGT) and represents the oldest known version of it ...

Researchers in Germany have decoded what they say is the oldest-ever manuscript detailing Jesus Christ's life as a child. The papyrus manuscript dates back more than 1,600 years old to the 4th or ...

A newly translated manuscript has now been confirmed to have been the oldest ... written in Greek,” Macedo said. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas details stories of Jesus’s childhood but is ...

but the oldest surviving written copy of a gospel detailing Jesus’ childhood. Lajos Berkes from Humboldt University of Berlin and Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from the University of Liège in Belgium ...

A newly deciphered manuscript dating back more than 1,600 years has been identified as the earliest known account of Jesus Christ’s childhood. The manuscript, written on papyrus in either the ...