For decades, an ancient piece of papyrus sourced from Egypt had been gathering dust in a university library in Hamburg, Germany. At first glance, it doesn’t look like much. The fragmented text is written in clumsy handwriting and, at first glance, looks like some private letter or some other kind of trivial document like thousands of others in the museum’s collection. But when researchers had a second look, the word “Jesus” written in Greek letters immediately stood out. Upon closer inspection, it dawned on them that the unnoticed document contains fragments of the “Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” …