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 Nazarenes in the Hebrew language.(Eusebius, "Historia Ecclesiastica", 6.25) There exist two views concerning the relationship of the surviving citations from the "Gospel of the Nazarenes": Due to contradictions in the account of the baptism of Jesus, and other reasons, most biblical scholars consider that the "Gospel of the Nazarenes", "Gospel of the Hebrews", and "Gospel of the Ebionites" are three separate Gospels, even though Jerome linked the Nazarenes to the Ebionites in their use of the "Gospel of the Hebrews". Philipp Vielhauer writes of the Greek/Latin fragments collected as the Gospel of the Nazarenes that "Its literary character shows the GN