John Marco Allegro (1923-1988), British scholar

John Marco Allegro (1923-1988) was a British scholar.

Biography

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

Boooks

• The Dead Sea Scrolls (Harmondsworth 1956)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity (New York 1957)
• The Treasure of the Copper Scrolls (Garden City 1960)
• The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (Garden City 1970)
• The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish History from the Time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba (London 1971)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (Newton Abbot 1979; Buffalo 19922)