Lesesaal

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas

Jesus of Nazareth

Episodes from Jesus's childhood between the ages of five and twelve: he models clay birds that fly away, strikes dead those who annoy him and makes fools of his teachers, before becoming a beneficent child who heals and raises the dead. It fills the gap the canonical gospels leave between the birth and the Temple episode, and some of its scenes passed into the Qur'an (the clay birds, sura 3:49).