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.[1][2] While its author claims to be a Coptic priest, only Syriac manuscripts of the text appear to have survived. The narrative of the text is an expanded biography of the biblical John the Baptist, drawing upon earlier sources in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of James.

  1. ^ A. Mingana (Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni, vol. 1, Cambridge 1927, pp. 138–287).
  2. ^ Čéplö, Slavomir. “The Life of John the Baptist by Serapion.” Pages 262–92 in vol. 1 of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016 (translation based on (Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 369, fols. 142r–149v (1481).) and (Vatican, Biblioteca apostolica, Sbath 125, no foliation (1440)).