A somewhat different Jesus

[porphyry]

After this again he went through he village, and a lad knocked against his shoulder. Jesus was exasperated and said to him: "You shall not go further on your way", and the child immediately fell down and died.

Infancy Gospel of Thomas, 4.1 (Hennecke-Schneemelcher)

Weirdly, there is a cartoon of another episode from the gospel (ch. 9):

Comments

[daoinesidh.livejournal.com]

Oh my god ... I must get a copy!! :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I thought you would have some difficulty in that, but here it is on-line:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/infancythomas.html

Isn't the internet amazing?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it further, when I was a lowly undergraduate in the first half of Western Civ, the Professor--the most effective speaker I've ever heard to this day--said, "The only difference between you and me is that I have access to books that you don't." That was largely true. I can say things about early Christianity or Neoplatonism that other's can;t because I've read books they haven't. And who in my audience would the two volumed of Hennecke-Schneelmecher sitting on their shelf. But now there's no need for them to.

[daoinesidh.livejournal.com]

It is amazing what one can find on the internet these days ... many of those old hallowed volumes of history that my ancient profs allowed us whipper-snappers to peek at from time to time are popping up on Google Books! And so changes the face of the whipper-snapper ... which can be troublesome at times, since everyone in their twenties seems to know everything ... *sighs*! :)

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

The cartoon is really funny. I'm sure he would have brought the first one back to life again in due course!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

And so close to the text--except the dead boy's name was Zeno.

[majolika.livejournal.com]

this is very off topic, but oh what did you do to me with that post. You made me look for my apocrypha. Which made me realize that I don't even find my bibles. Then I saw that I have the Peanuts next to De Sade in my bookshelf. And now I'm trying to change that. Still haven't found the bibles. Sweet Jesus!

*falls down and dies*