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
Categories:
- Scholars
- British
- British Scholars
- Born in the 1920s
- Died in the 1980s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- Qumran Studies--1950s
- Qumran Studies--1960s
- Qumran Studies--1970s
- Qumran Studies--English
- Qumran Studies--German
- Qumran Studies--Spanish
- Qumran Studies--Japanese
- Qumran Studies--Italian
- Qumran Studies--Portuguese
- Qumran Studies--Danish
- Qumran Studies--Czech