UNBELIEVABLE: Experts Discover Oldest Written Record of Jesus Christ's Childhood, Revealing an Amazing Miracle Not in the Bible ...
Experts in Germany have uncovered a deciphered manuscript that has been determined to be the oldest record of Jesus Christ’s childhood.
The above is all correct! Closeup. The find has some excitement to it, but not that which the general public might assume from hasty reading. Rather, it shows that even apocrypha were used for writing exercises very early on, and confirms accuracy of transmission and of early date for the apocrypha.
Both TGP and CBS have written uncritical, incorrect headlines. The source, Humboldt University, correctly reports "Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered". Not the oldest written childhood record, but the oldest copy of the "childhood gospel" aka Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Also, not "reveals" a miracle, because Thomas followers (like Anne Rice) have known about these alleged miracles for centuries. There are extant apologetics about the death passages, though I'd take them with a different grain of salt.
Note that we have older manuscripts of Jesus's birth, circumcision and presentation, and childhood, such as Papyrus 141 (3rd century) containing Luke 2:40-42 et al., not to mention Vaticanus/Sinaiticus.
Still looking for Jesus's name in the text. All I can read is "KEK".
kek!!