Talk:Infancy Gospel of Thomas
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- Jesus at School talks about the Tring tiles mentioned in a Guardian article. --62.221.5.212 17:07, 13 February 2006 (UTC) JFG
[edit] An unwarranted deletion discovered
On December 1 2005, User:Jamesmusik deleted the following: "The first known quote from its text is from Irenaeus of Lyon, ca 185, which sets a latest possible date of authorship." What statement of simple fact could be more colorlessly presented than this? This article needs to be monitored more closely for subtle vandalism. --Wetman 19:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The article claims that the clay bird story found its way into the Qur'an
How do we know that the reverse is not true, just like with the claims that the Gospel of Barnabas is a forgery? Kirbytime 04:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- Chronology. --Wetman 16:03, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits and restorations
- For a text that was mentioned by Irenaeus c. 185, the following is babble:"
The text cannot be precisely dated and the range of possible dates is extremely large. The latest possible date is that of the first manuscript, sometime in the 6th century AD. Few scholars accept a date near this end of the range." All that is useful in this, is the often-instanced instinct to make a non-canonical text late, even, as here, at the risk of nonsense.
- Since the evidence for dating has been give, the following adds nothing: "While this is fairly supportive of a second century dating, it is by no means definitive." The evidence has not been characterized as "definitive".
The two episodes said to berepresented in the Quran need to be identified and translated. --Wetman 06:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
