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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 ...
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... See Lists of Bible stories. New Testament stories are the pericopes or stories from the New Testament of Christianity. Events ...
When writing down the Gospels based on the stories they had heard, the evangelists confused the meaning of the scrolls. In this way, according to Allegro, the Christian tradition is based on a misunderstanding of the scrolls. [25] [26] He also argued that the story of Jesus was based on the crucifixion of the Teacher of Righteousness in the ...
The Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures and is the textual source for the Christian Old Testament.In addition to religious instruction, the collection chronicles a series of events that explain the origins and travels of the Hebrew peoples in the ancient Near East.
The Story Bible is a book for anyone interested in the Bible. Whether it is for reading popular Bible stories (Noah's Ark, or The Creation Story), or as a down to earth introduction to the Bible. For those already familiar with the Bible this book revives stories that have been read over and over, and adds life and animation to the story.
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha.Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the child to kill him.
Philosophy of psychedelics is the philosophical investigation of the psychedelic experience.While psychedelic, entheogenic or hallucinogenic substances have been used by many traditional cultures throughout history mostly for religious purposes, recorded philosophical speculation and analysis of these substances, their phenomenological effects and the relevance of these altered states of ...