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 ...

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 ...

The two dated the manuscript to somewhere between the 4th and 5th centuries, beating the previously held record for the oldest manuscript on Jesus’s childhood by about 600 years. Recommended Stories ...

The 1,600-year-old manuscript had sat unnoticed for decades at a German university. Experts say it may be the oldest written document detailing Jesus’ childhood.

Researchers in Germany have decoded what they say is the oldest-ever manuscript detailing Jesus Christ's life as a child. (Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg/Public Domain Mark 1.0) ...

The piece belongs to the oldest known manuscript of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and depicts the early life of Jesus Christ, according to a June 4 news release from Humboldt University of Berlin.

The papyrus, which was kept at a university library in Hamburg, Germany, is the oldest copy of the gospel known — written around the 2nd century A.D. and supports the findings that the original ...

Now, more than a millennium and a half after it was written, researchers believe the papyrus fragment is no ordinary memo, but the oldest surviving written copy of a gospel detailing Jesus' childhood.

June 12 (UPI) — A recently deciphered manuscript, dating back to the 4th or 5th century and stored in a university library in Hamburg, Germany, has been identified by researchers as the earliest ...

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 ...