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

Books

• The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956 Allegro), book
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity (1957 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, 1992 Allegro), book