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John Marco is an American author of fantasy fiction. His work falls into two main series: Tyrants and Kings , and The Inhumans (which is often also called the Lukien/Bronze Knight series, in reference to the main character).
John Marco Allegro (17 February 1923 – 17 February 1988) was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. He was a populariser of the Dead Sea Scrolls through his books and radio broadcasts. He was the editor of some of the most famous and controversial scrolls published, the pesharim.
The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified ...
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Marco Antonio Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, [2] the second son and third child of Mario Rubio Reina [3] and Oriales (née García) Rubio. [4] His parents were Cubans who immigrated to the United States in 1956 during the regime of Fulgencio Batista , two and a half years before Fidel Castro ascended to power after the Cuban Revolution . [ 5 ]
The book was written nine years after Allegro's forced resignation from academia due to publishing The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.It is an imaginative look at what life would have been like at Qumran, Judea at the time when Jesus was supposed to have lived in the 1st century CE.
As a young woman, Miranda designed clothes and hats in a boutique before making her debut as a singer, recording with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of "Taí (Pra Você Gostar de Mim)", written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her to stardom in Brazil as the foremost interpreter of samba .
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".