In a stunning revelation, German scholars have discovered a manuscript that is now recognized as the oldest account detailing the childhood of Jesus Christ. The ancient document, a 1,600-year-old papyrus, had been inconspicuously housed within a university library in Hamburg, Germany, largely overlooked for decades.
According to a CBS News report, the document came to light through the efforts of Dr. Lajos Berkes from Germany’s Institute for Christianity and Antiquity at Humboldt University in Berlin, and Professor Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from Belgium’s University of Liège. They identified the manuscript as the earliest known copy of the “Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” a text that narrates various episodes from Jesus Christ’s early life.
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The scholars disclosed in a press release that the papyrus contains unique anecdotes not present in the canonical Bible. These stories, popular during the Middle Ages, include a notable miracle where a young Jesus animates clay birds. According to the document, at just five years old, Jesus was found by his father, Joseph, crafting birds from mud on the Sabbath—a day on which such activities were forbidden.
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