[Arabic] Evangelium infantiae vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris

Only antiquated translations exist. This is the first modern English translation.

The work 'Evangelium infantiae vel liber apocryphus de infantia servatoris' (1697) is a well-known Latin translation of the Arabic Infancy Gospel, edited by Henry Sike. While the underlying apocryphal text has been translated into English many times (e.g., by William Hone in 'The Apocryphal New Testament', 1820), these are typically translations of the original Greek or Arabic, or modern scholarly editions. No modern, critical English translation of Sike's specific 1697 Latin edition exists, though it was rendered into English in the 18th and 19th centuries (e.g., by Jeremiah Jones in 1726). Therefore, it qualifies as a first modern translation.

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