John Marco Allegro (1923-1988), British scholar

John Marco Allegro (1923-1988) was a British scholar. Professor at the University of Manchester. In 1953 was invited to be the first British representative on the international team working on the recently discovered Dead Sea Scrolls. A freethinker who challenged orthodox views with some hypotheses that attracted popular attention as much as scholarly skepticism

Works

Books

• The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956 Allegro), book
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity (1957 Allegro), book
• The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1958 Allegro), book

• The Treasure of the Copper Scrolls (1960 Allegro), book
• The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970 Allegro), book
• The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish History from the Time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba (1971 Allegro), book
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979 Allegro), book

Biography

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