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In November 2009 The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross was reprinted in a 40th anniversary edition with a 30-page addendum by Prof. Carl A. P. Ruck of Boston University. [9] A more articulate exposition of Allegro's insights into early Christianity and his discoveries studying the Dead Sea Scrolls was published in his 1979 book The Dead Sea Scrolls ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian myth is a 1979 book about the Dead Sea Scrolls, Essenes and early Christianity that proposes the non-existence of Jesus Christ. It was written by John Marco Allegro (1922–1988).
In his books The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979), Allegro put forward the theory that stories of early Christianity originated in an Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of psychedelic mushrooms, and that the New Testament is the coded record of this shamanistic cult.
A cryptic cup, ancient Jerusalem tunnels and other archaeological finds may help solve who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to some scientists. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered more than ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.
Eisenman attempts to reconstruct the events surrounding the origins of Christianity, preceding the recorded history of early Christianity.He critically reviews the narrative of the canonical gospels drawing on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Clementine Recognitions and Homilies, the Apostolic Constitutions, Eusebius, the two James Apocalypses from Nag Hammadi, the Western Text of Acts and the ...
Healers of the Dead Sea is a 30-minute CBS documentary regarding Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes produced by John Marco Allegro and Douglas Edwards. [1] [2]Allegro narrated and had begun work on the film for the BBC in 1980, under the alternative title "The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls".
They are the first new fragments of the 1,900-year-old parchment to be found in archaeological excavations in the desert south of Jerusalem in 60 years.