GERMANY (WKRC) - Scientists have discovered the oldest surviving copy of a written account of the childhood of Jesus in a forgotten and decaying manuscript. Papyrologists, scientists who study ...

It has been identified by researchers as the earliest surviving writings about Jesus Christ's childhood. Photo courtesy of Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg/Public Domain Mark 1.0 ...

The two dated the manuscript to somewhere between the 4th and 5th centuries, beating the previously held record for the oldest manuscript on Jesus’s childhood by about 600 years. Recommended Stories ...

The earliest known recollection of Jesus' childhood was discovered at a university library in Germany. The 2,000-year-old text depicts the story of the 'vivication of the sparrows.' ...

Researchers in Germany have decoded what they say is the oldest-ever manuscript detailing Jesus Christ's life as a child. (Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg/Public Domain Mark 1.0) ...

Now, more than a millennium and a half after it was written, researchers believe the papyrus fragment is no ordinary memo, but the oldest surviving written copy of a gospel detailing Jesus' childhood.

THE earliest record of Jesus’s childhood has been found in a 2,000-year-old parchment that tells an incredible story not found in the Bible.Scrawled Jump directly to the content UK Edition ...

1,600-year-old fragment identified to be oldest written account of Jesus Christ's childhood. ... has been identified by researchers as the earliest surviving account of Jesus Christ's childhood. ...

Researchers in Germany have decoded what they say is the oldest-ever manuscript detailing Jesus Christ's life as a child. The papyrus manuscript dates back more than 1,600 years old to the 4th or ...

June 12 (UPI) — A recently deciphered manuscript, dating back to the 4th or 5th century and stored in a university library in Hamburg, Germany, has been identified by researchers as the earliest ...