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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (Paperback, 2nd Rev. Ed)
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (Paperback, 2nd Rev. Ed)
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Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional
character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls
reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a
conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts
traditional church teaching? John Allegro addresses these and many
other intriguing questions in this fascinating account of what may
be the most significant archaeological discovery of the twentieth
century.
As one of the original scholars entrusted with the task of
deciphering these ancient documents, Allegro worked on some of the
most important texts, including the Biblical commentaries. In 1961,
King Hussein of Jordan appointed him to be honorary advisor to the
Jordanian government on the Dead Sea Scrolls. In his engaging and
highly readable style, Allegro conveys the excitement of the
initial archaeological find and takes the reader on a journey of
intellectual discovery that goes to the heart of Western culture.
Allegro suggests that Christianity evolved out of the Messianic
theology of the Essenes, the Jewish sect that wrote the Dead Sea
Scrolls.
This new edition of Allegro's book also contains an essay in which
he describes the in-fighting among the scholars assigned to study
the scrolls and his thirty-year battle to release all of the texts
to the public. Allegro was one of the first scholars to protest the
long delay in publishing the Scrolls and to criticize his
colleagues for their secretive and possessive attitudes. This issue
has recently been the focus of national media coverage, with the
result that after forty years, open access to all of the Dead Sea
Scrolls has finally been permitted.
If he had lived to see it, John Allegro would have been very
pleased by this resolution of the controversy. In the same spirit
of free inquiry that Allegro championed, Prometheus is reissuing
his book in paperback to encourage open discussion of these
important ancient texts.
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