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For nearly two millennia, the global consciousness has been shaped by a specific, carefully curated image of Jesus Christ. We know him as the "Prince of Peace," the man of ultimate sorrows who preached forgiveness and turned the other cheek. Yet, there is a gaping hole in this narrative, a silence that lasts nearly eighteen years. While the canonical Gospels of the New Testament jump from his birth to his ministry at age thirty, early Christian history was once filled with stories of what happened in between. These "missing years" were not always empty. In the second and third centuries, a collection of texts known as the "Infancy Gospels" circulated widely throughout the Roman Empire. The most famous, and perhaps