Papers from conferences held autumn 2010, Lausanne, Fribourg and Geneva.

Includes bibliographical references.

Divine fathers, virgin mothers and founding children : Italic myths about conception and birth / Francesca Prescendi -- Les Evangiles canoniques de l'enfance et les rčits d'enfance intertestamentaires / Christian Grappe -- La virginit ďe Marie : entre textes et contextes (Ier-IIe sic̈les) / Simon Claude Mimouni -- Les plus anciennes traditions sur la naissance de Jšus et leur rapport avec les testimonia / Enrico Norelli -- Jesus' family and their genealogy according to the testimony of Julius Africanus / Christophe Guignard -- The cultural structure of the infancy narrative in the Gospel of Matthew / Adriana Destro & Mauro Pesce -- The Matthean reading of Isaiah 7.14 and the Midrash of ancient rabbis / Jos Čosta -- Creating difference thorugh parallelism : Luke's handling of the traditions on John the Baptist and Jesus in the infancy narrative / Joseph Verheyden -- Beyond the category of "proto-orthodox Christianity" : an enquiry into the multivalence of Lk 1.35 / Claire Clivaz --

How could Mark and John do without infancy stories? Jesus' humanity and His divine origins in Mark and John / Jr̲g Frey -- The genealogies of Jesus in Tatian's Diatessaron : the question of their absence or presence : a response to J. Frey / David Pastorelli -- Subversive Erinnerung : feministisch-kritische Lekt re von Mt 1-2 und Lk 1-2 / Andrea Taschl-Erber -- Matthew 1-2 and the problem of intertextuality / Moisš Mayordomo -- Enjeux ecclšiologiques de Matthieu 1-2 : approche historique et narrative / Elian Cuvillier -- Giving birth to Jesus in the late first century : Matthew as midwife in the context of colonisation / Anders Runesson -- Lk 1-2 : Auftakt einer tragischen Geschichte? Christliche Identitt̃ im Gesprc̃h mit Israel / Simon Butticaz -- The infancy of Jesus and the infancy of the church : from the canticles (Luke 1-2) to the summaries (Acts 1-7) / Luc Devillers -- D'une identit ľ̉'autre : Le Magnificat, le Benedictus, le Gloria et le Nunc dimittis dans le rl̥e de passeurs / Daniel Gerber -- God as father in the infancy gospels (Matt 1 and 2, Luke 1 and 2) / Benedict Viviano --

Ways to survival for the infancy apocrypha / Sever J. Voicu -- "Let us bring her up to the Temple of the Lord" : exploring the boundaries of Jewish and Christian relations though the Presentation of Mary in the Protevangelium of James / Lily Vuong -- Les Paidika Iesou, un nouveau tm̌oin de la rencontre entre judas̐me et christianisme Ảntioche au IVe sic̈le? / Frďřic Amsler -- Die sogenannte "Kindheitserzh̃lung des Thomas" : berlegungen zur Darstellung Jesu als Kind, deren Intention und Rezeption / Ursula Ulrike Kaiser -- Rereading the rewriting of the biblical traditions in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Paidika) / Geert van Oyen -- Mapping an unexplored second cenutry apocryphal gospel : the Liber de Nativitate Salvatoris (CANT 53) / Jean-Daniel Kaestli -- Les rčits apocryphes de l'enfance dans la tradition armňienne / Valentina Calzolari -- Jesus and his mother in the Jewish anti-gospel (the Toledot Yeshu) / Philip Alexander -- Voltaire and the Toledoth Yeshu : a response to Philip Alexander / Daniel Barbu -- "False" and "true" infancy and apocryphal gospels in the century of Voltaire / Franȯis Rosset