infancy

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Writer-director Lotfy Nathan’s inspiration is an apocryphal 2nd century text called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which purports to describe the incident-filled childhood of a temperamental Jesus.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

Baby Acer, who was born during a Covid lockdown, died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy in Surrey in 2021.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

Or so say the Infancy Gospels, gnostic folk tales popular in their day but left out of the Scriptures for obvious reasons.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

She said the earliest text to mention Mary’s age is “The Infancy Gospel of James,” which she describes as “a clearly legendary text that is trying to expand on the gospel accounts.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2017

The Gospel of the Infancy informs us, that Jesus, when young, amused himself with forming small birds of clay, which he afterwards animated, and then they flew into the air.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'