THIS 1,600- year- old- manuscript details childhood miracles of Jesus Christ. Papyrus fragment decoded
manuscript, over 1,600 years old, has been identified as the earliest known account of Jesus Christ’s childhood. The document had been stored in a library in Hamburg, Germany, for decades and was long believed to be insignificant. However, as per the reports of 'New York Post', two experts have now decoded the text and revealed that it is the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
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What do experts say?
Lajos Berkes, a theology lecturer and one of the two men who deciphered the document, said in a press release that the papyrus fragment is very interesting for research. According to 'New York Post', he clarified that because of poor handwriting at first, people assumed it to be a normal document, such as a shopping list or a private letter. But they soon realized it was not an ordinary paper when they saw the name «Jesus» in the text and began to translate it letter by letter by comparing it with other computerized papyri.
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The other expert who worked with the papyrus fragment to decipher it, Gabriel Nocchi Macedo, stated that their results support the theory that the Thomas Infancy Gospel was originally written in Greek. Both Macedo and Berkes believe the manuscript was written on the papyrus fragment as a writing exercise at a school or a monastery. Berkes added that by comparing it with other known manuscripts of this Gospel, they know their text is the earliest.
