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It's often remarked upon that The Bible goes into very little detail on the life of Jesus between His birth and the last few years of His life. There's a few snippets about His childhood and a fairly important bit at the age of 12, but after that we get a huge Time Skip to His early 30s. Naturally, as with all unexplained mysteries about famous people, fiction writers have pounced on this as story material. Maybe He spent that period in a distant land, learning from their sages? Maybe He was a bit of a party animal? Maybe He trained in a Shaolin monastery to fight evil with kung fu? We deserve to know! The missing years are often treated as the result of a Vatican cover-up, especially as some of the Gnostic Gospels, which weren't deemed worthy of inclusion in the Bible, contain stories about Jesus' youth. It's more likely that His early life was fairly mundane, probably involving work as an apprentice carpenter in the Nazareth area, and just wasn't interesting enough to mention in a tale about a great prophet. The cultural fascination with great people coming up from humble origins and desire to analyze every bit of their childhood, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Even if this isn't the setting for the story, it's ripe grounds for Conversational Troping between characters. Related to Beethoven Was an Alien Spy. Subtrope of Stock Unsolved Mysteries. |
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A The Kids in the Hall skit showed examples of Jesus' carpentry work - it turns out he wasn't a particularly skilled carpenter. | |
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore is all about this. "Josh" travels to India, China, and The Middle East to visit The Three Wise Men, where they in turn teach Jesus one different facet of his later teachings. (In the afterword, Moore is specific in mentioning that Buddhism didn't reach China in the lifetime of Jesus. For him to study under a Buddha in Tibet would have been anachronistic.) | |
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Red Dwarf The episode "Lemons" has the time-traveling crew come across who they think is Jesus in this period, but it turns out to be a different young man also named Jesus. Another identical-looking man also named Jesus appears at the very end, but after all the trouble they caused with the first guy, the crew chooses not to investigate. It's also a relatively plausible historical scenario. Yeshua (the Hebrew name from which English speakers ultimately derive the names Jesus and Joshua) was the sixth most popular male name in Roman Judea. And there were lots of religious teachers and itinerant preachers wandering around as well at the time. This is likely why he's called Jesus of Nazareth, to differentiate him from other ones. |
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Second Coming: The third miniseries, Trinity, has flashbacks to Jesus's childhood, which are loosely based on the "Infancy Gospel of Thomas". | |
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Shaman King implies that Jesus was the winner of his era's Shaman fight. It can be implied this was the period where he was a participant in the tournament. | |
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Tomics uses this premise as a plotline for many strips. A lot of them focus on the life of young Jesus, and how he interacts with people like his parents Mary and Joseph and with his cousin John the Baptist. | |
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A cartoon in now-defunct Punch! magazine showed the young Jesus inexpertly butchering a piece of carpentry. Joseph is seen shaking his head and remarking to Mary | |
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Dogma explains that the Metatron told Jesus who he was at the age of 12; the gap is the result of one enormous Heroic BSoD as he tries to come to terms with that fact. However, Rufus reveals that the books talking about it were left out of the New Testament because they dealt heavily with Jesus's younger, non-divine brothers and sisters - one of which is Bethany's ancestor. | |
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QI: They discussed the Infancy Gospels in one episode. Stephen Fry shared a story about a confrontation between the child Jesus and a group of many dragons that had suddenly sprung from a nearby cave. Another episode discussed the story about Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea coming to Glastonbury. |
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman creates an account of Jesus' childhood in which he had an Evil Twin named Christ. Jesus was a well-meaning but naive philosopher and revolutionary while Christ was a politically savvy schemer who eventually used his brother to create a powerful church. | |
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An episode of Family Guy shows him as a teenager, trying to deal with God being an absentee father who's shacked up with a bimbo. | |
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