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Re: What about the time Jesus ran away as a boy

Posted by diogenes on 2024-December-8 06:47:43, Sunday
In reply to What about the time Jesus ran away as a boy posted by Jessy on 2024-December-7 21:38:25, Saturday
Actually, the early Christians wondered about the 'hidden years' of Jesus as well, hence the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, in which he goes around as a literal enfant terrible with miraculous powers, but gradually learns to use them for the good of others rather than constantly striking others down in fits of anger. Chapter 6 of that Gospel was made into a short story by Guy Davenport (it's section 1 of 'August Blue' in A Table of Green Fields; it's only four pages and can be read in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/tableofgreenfiel00dave/page/4/mode/2up).

Many researchers, both Christian and non-Christian, have also wondered about Jesus's sexual development; but unfortunately there's very little that can be said other than what was said by John P. Meier:
that Jesus experienced sexual maturation like any other Jewish boy of his day is obvious; what that experience meant to him personally as an individual, or what special aspects that experience may have held for him, is completely hidden from us. (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Doubleday, 1991, p. 254)


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