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 the Meninblack album sold around 50,000 copies, peaking at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart; it spent five weeks in the listings. Parts of the distinctive opening instrumental "Waltzinblack" were later used as the theme music for Keith Floyd's BBC TV series, "Floyd on Food". The Stranglers developed a tradition of opening their live performances with recorded excerpts of "Waltzinblack". In a 2015 interview on British TV, Burnel stated that the band experimented with heroin in order to help their creative process and this album was the result. All tracks composed and arranged by The Stranglers The Gospel According to the