Life of John the Baptist Philip’s wife Herodias." Life of John the Baptist The Life of John the Baptist is a book from the New Testament apocrypha, allegedly written in Greek by Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in 390 AD. The text is an expanded biography of the biblical John the Baptist. Tony Burke, Associate Professor of Early Christianity, at York University describes the vita as: "begins with a harmony of details about John’s birth taken from the Gospel of Luke and the Infancy Gospel of James, finishing with the death of Zechariah and Elizabeth fleeing from Herod’s soldiers into the desert. After five years, when
Gospel of the Twelve Gospel of the Twelve The Gospel of the Twelve (), possibly also referred to as the "Gospel of the Apostles", is a lost gospel mentioned by Origen in Homilies in Luke as part of a list of heretical works. Schneemelcher's standard edition of the "New Testament Apocrypha" states that Jerome incorrectly identified the "Gospel of the Twelve", which he referred to as the "Gospel according to the Apostles", with the Gospel of the Hebrews ("Dial. adv. Pelag. III 2"), whereas Origen clearly distinguished between them ("Homilies in Luke" 1.1). Ambrose and Bede may have also made allusions to it. A