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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The History of Research; 2. Oral/Written Tradition; 3. Narrative and Literary Features; 4. Daily Life and Social Relations; 5. Cultural Concepts and Values; 6. Jesus as a Child; 7. Jesus from Boy to Man; 8. Intertextuality-Reflections of the Bible; 9. Strange Sayings; 10. Main Theological Issues; 11. A Popular Tale from Early Rural Christianity; 12. Christianity's First Children's Story; 13. Conclusions; Appendix 1 Greek Text; Appendix 2 English Translation; Appendix 3 The Structure of Ga/Gb/Gd.

Appendix 4 Designations of Individual EpisodesAppendix 5 Survey of Greek Variants and the Versions*; Appendix 6 Survey of IGT Evidence by Century; Appendix 7 Survey of Early Christian Infancy Stories; Bibliography; Back Cover.

The mid-second-century apocryphal infancy gospel, the Gospel of Thomas, which deals with the childhood of Jesus from age five to age twelve, has attained only limited interest from scholars. Much research into the story has also been seriously misguided - especially study of the story's origin, character, and setting. This book gives a fresh interpretation of the infancy gospel, not least by applying a variety of new approaches, including orality studies, narrative studies, gender studies, and social-scientific approaches. The book comes to a number of radical new conclusions: The Gospel of Th.

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