Infancy Gospel of Thomas - wikipedia Infancy Gospel of Thomas This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2018 ) Not to be confused with Gospel of Thomas. New Testament apocrypha Apostolic Fathers 1 Clement 2 Clement Epistles of Ignatius Polycarp to the Philippians Martyrdom of Polycarp Didache Barnabas Diognetus The Shepherd of Hermas Jewish -- Christian gospels Ebionites Hebrews Nazarenes Infancy gospels James Thomas Syriac Pseudo-Matthew History of Joseph the Carpenter Gnostic gospels Judas Mary Philip Truth Secret Mark The Saviour Other Gospels Thomas Marcion Nicodemus Peter Barnabas Apocalypse Paul Coptic Paul Peter Gnostic Peter Pseudo-Methodius Thomas Stephen 1 James 2 James Epistles Apocryphon of James Apocryphon of John Epistula Apostolorum Corinthians to Paul Pseudo-Titus Peter to Philip Laodiceans Seneca the Younger 3 Corinthians Acts Andrew Barnabas John Mar Mari The Martyrs Paul Paul and Thecla Peter Peter and Andrew Peter and Paul Peter and the Twelve Philip Pilate Thaddeus Thomas Timothy Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca Misc Diatessaron Doctrine of Addai Questions of Bartholomew Resurrection of Jesus Christ Prayer of the Apostle Paul `` Lost '' Books Bartholomew Matthias Cerinthus Basilides Mani Historical edits Decretum Gelasianum Nag Hammadi library The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is a biographical gospel about the childhood of Jesus, believed to date latest to the 2nd century or earlier. It does not form part of the biblical canon in any form of Christianity. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is thought to be Gnostic in origin. The oldest known copy ( discovered with the Nag Hammadi ) was written in Coptic, not Greek as would have been expected of an authentic apocryphal text or `` lost gospel ''. Later references ( by Hippolytus of Rome and Origen of Alexandria ) to a `` Gospel of Thomas '', are more likely to be referring to this Infancy Gospel, than to the wholly different Gospel of Thomas with which it is sometimes confused. Early Christians regarded the Infancy Gospel of Thomas as inauthentic and heretical. Hipploytus identified it as a fake and a heresy in his Refutation of All Heresies, and his contemporary Origen referred to it in a similar way in a homily written in the early 3rd century. Eusebius rejected it as a heretical `` fiction '' in the third book of his 4th - century Church History, and Pope Gelasius I included it in his list of heretical books in the 5th century. While non-canonical in Christianity, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas is said by scholars to influence Islamic beliefs about Jesus along with the Protevangelium of James, with the Qur'an containing references to many stories found in both works. One theory suggested is that Christians in Mecca at the time of Mohammed 's life only knew of these texts and not of the Canonical Gospels, but this is contested. Contents 1 Author 2 Dating 3 Manuscript tradition 4 Content 5 Syriac Infancy Gospel 6 See also 7 Further reading 8 References 9 External links Author The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is a work attributed to `` Thomas the Israelite '' ( in a medieval Latin version ). The biblical Thomas ( or Judas Thomas, Didymos Judas Thomas, etc. ) is very unlikely to have had anything to do with the text. Some scholars believe the initial author was a gentile, and whoever he was, he seems not to have known much of Jewish life besides what he could learn from the Gospel of Luke, which the text seems to refer to directly in ch. 19 ; Sabbath and Passover observances are mentioned. Dating The first known quotation of its text is from Irenaeus of Lyon, ca 185. The earliest possible date of authorship is in the 80s A.D., the approximate date of the Gospel of Luke, from which the author of the Infancy Gospel borrowed the story of Jesus in the temple at age twelve ( see Infancy 19 : 1 - 12 and Luke 2 : 41 - 52 ). Scholars generally agree on a date in the mid - to late - 2nd century A.D. There are two 2nd - century documents, the Epistula Apostolorum and Irenaeus ' Adversus haereses, which refer to a story of Jesus ' tutor telling him, `` Say alpha, '' and him replying, `` First tell me what is beta, and I can tell you what alpha is. '' It is generally agreed that there was at least some period of oral transmission of the text, either wholly or as several different stories before it was first redacted and transcribed, and it is thus entirely possible that both of these documents and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas all refer to the oral versions of this story. Manuscript tradition It is unknown whether the original language of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was Greek or Syriac. The few surviving Greek manuscripts provide no clues themselves, since none of them date before the 13th century, while the earliest authorities, according to the editor and translator Montague Rhodes James, are a much abbreviated 6th century Syriac version, and a Latin palimpsest of the 5th or 6th century, which has never been fully translated and can be found in Vienna. There are many different manuscripts, translations, shortened versions, alternates, and parallels with slight nuance differences. James found that their large number makes the accounting of which text was which very difficult. This number of texts and versions reflects the great popularity of the work during the High Middle Ages. Content Jesus raises the clay birds of his playmates to life. ( Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk, 14th century ) The text describes the life of the child Jesus, with fanciful, and sometimes malevolent, supernatural events, comparable to the trickster nature of the god - child in many a Greek myth. One of the episodes involves Jesus making clay birds, which he then proceeds to bring to life, an act also attributed to Jesus in Quran 5 : 110, and in a medieval work known as Toledot Yeshu, although Jesus ' age at the time of the event is not specified in either account. In another episode, a child disperses water that Jesus has collected. Jesus kills his first child, when at age one he curses a boy, which causes the child 's body to wither into a corpse. Later, Jesus kills another child when Jesus curses him when he apparently accidentally bumps into Jesus, throws a stone at Jesus, or punches Jesus ( depending on the translation ). When Joseph and Mary 's neighbors complain, they are miraculously struck blind by Jesus. Jesus then starts receiving lessons, but arrogantly tries to teach the teacher instead, upsetting the teacher who suspects supernatural origins. Jesus is amused by this suspicion, which he confirms, and revokes all his earlier apparent cruelty. Subsequently he resurrects a friend who is killed when he falls from a roof, and heals another who cuts his foot with an axe. After various other demonstrations of supernatural ability, new teachers try to teach Jesus, but he proceeds to explain the law to them instead. There is another set of miracles in which Jesus heals his brother who is bitten by a snake, and two others who have died from different causes. Finally, the text recounts the episode in Luke in which Jesus, aged twelve, teaches in the temple. Although the miracles seem quite randomly inserted into the text, there are three miracles before, and three after, each of the sets of lessons. The structure of the story is essentially : Bringing life to a dried fish ( this is only present in later texts ) ( First group ) 3 Miracles - Breathes life into birds fashioned from clay, curses a boy, who then becomes a corpse, curses a boy who falls dead and his parents become blind Attempt to teach Jesus which fails, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles - Reverses his earlier acts, resurrects a friend who fell from a roof, heals a man who chopped his foot with an axe. ( Second group ) 3 Miracles - Carries water on cloth, produces a feast from a single grain, stretches a beam of wood to help his father finish constructing a bed Attempts to teach Jesus, which fails, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles - Heals James from snake poison, resurrects a child who died of illness, resurrects a man who died in a construction accident Incident in the temple paralleling Luke Episodes from Jesus ' childhood as depicted in the `` Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk '', a 14th - century gospel translation : Jesus is carrying water in his lap, after his water jar got broken ; other children are watching in surprise. Jesus hands the water in his lap over to Mary. Jesus reassembles the water jars of the children who, in an attempt to imitate him, smashed their jars on purpose. Jesus tells Joseph to raise a dead man. Joseph raises the man on the stretcher from the dead. During play, child Zenon falls off the roof of a house ; two Jews accuse Jesus to have pushed him. Jesus raises the dead child from the dead, so he can testify that Jesus is innocent. Together with other children, Jesus is catching fish on Sabbath. A Jew who scolds the children dies on the spot. The children complain about Jesus to adult Jews. At Mary 's and Joseph 's request, Jesus raises the dead man. Jesus plays with lions and guides them up to the town gates. The town people are scared. Jesus quarrels with his teacher in front of other pupils about the nature of the letters. Syriac Infancy Gospel The Syriac Infancy Gospel ( Injilu ' t Tufuliyyah ), translated from a Coptic original, gives some parallels to the episodes `` recorded in the book of Josephus the Chief Priest, who was in the time of Christ. '' See also Unknown years of Jesus Further reading Barnstone, Willis ( ed. ). The Other Bible, Harper Collins, 1984, pp. 398 -- 403. ISBN 0 - 06 - 250031 - 7 References Jump up ^ The Qur'an being influenced by The Infancy Gospel of Thomas : Bart Ehrman https://ehrmanblog.org/a-different-interpretation-of-the-mischievous-boy-jesus/ Jump up ^ Kate Zebiri of the University of London ( Spring 2000 ). `` Contemporary Muslim Understanding of the Miracles of Jesus '' ( PDF ). The Muslim World. Hartford Seminary 's Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian - Muslim Relations. 90 : 74. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2010 - 07 - 09. Retrieved 2010 - 01 - 04. In the Qur'an, the miracles of Jesus are described in two passages : 3 : 49 and 5 : 110. Qur'an 3 : 49 attributes the following words to Jesus : I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in that I make for you of clay, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God 's permission Jump up ^ Gospel of Thomas Greek Text A ( Archive ), Wesley Center Online, Northwest Nazarene University External links Wikisource has original text related to this article : Infancy Gospel of Thomas Early Christian Writings : Infancy Gospel of Thomas Gnostic Society Library : Infancy Gospel of Thomas introduction and translations by M.R. 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Question: where was the infancy gospel of thomas found
Answer: with the Nag Hammadi