El Evangelio de la Infancia según Tomás, un texto escolar para niños

In recent years, there has been considerable debate regarding the intended audience of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. R. Aasgaard has proposed that the text was conceived to be told to children in a domestic and familiar settings, even as to describe it as "the first children's story of Christianity". However, without excluding children as recipients, U. U. Kaiser argues that the text may have functioned as "a children's book for parents". Nevertheless, the limited proportion of stories focused on the domestic and family sphere (18%), along with the fact that 60% of the text is dedicated to the educational activities of teachers and Jesus himself as "teacher", sugests that we are dealing with a school text intended for children. At the same time, its final author, possibly a Christian teacher, exhorts Chistian parents to promote and entrust the education of their children. At the same time, its final author, possibly a Christian teachers, exhorts Christian parents to promote and entrust the education of their children to teachers of their own faith, rather than placing it in the hands of jewish teachers

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