Christian Texts and History • Re: Infancy Gospel of Thomas papyrus

Miracles of the Infant Jesus listed by Tony Burke:

* Forms birds out of clay
* Animates them
* Purifies water
* Withers a boy
* Kills boy in the market place
* Blinds people who accuse him of being a bad kid
* Restores the sight of people
* Resurrects boy who falls of a roof
* Does a miraculous yield of grain
* Stretches a beam of timber making a bed [ETA: Joseph had cut it too short]
* Carries water in a cloak
* Heals a snake bite

In longer versions of text"

* Heals a foot from axe cut
* Resurrects a man who fell off a ladder
* Resurrects an infant

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Mark Bilby then mentions (from Introduction of Tony Burke's critical edition) a summary of "the particularly negative characterisations of the IGT. Scholars have said that the miracles are:

* rediculous
* immoral
* purile
* malevolent
* cruel
* crude
* Jesus a hero of ridiculous and shabby pranks
* "enfant terrible"
* who acts in an un-Christian way
* utterly worthless
* text generally lacking in good taste, restraint and discretion

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