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
The Gospel According to Peanuts in 1968. This sequel was reissued in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers. Summary: About 25 years after the publication of this book, Short became a Presbyterian minister. The Gospel According to Peanuts "The Gospel According to" Peanuts is a 1965 book written by Robert L. Short about Charles M. Schulz's comic strip, "Peanuts". The book is based on Short's use of the "Peanuts" characters to illustrate his lectures about the Christian Gospel. The book was a best seller and sold over 10 million copies. Summary: A 35th anniversary edition of 130 pages was released by Westminster John Knox Press in 2000,