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John Marco Allegro

The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Judith Anne Brown

  • Paperback
  • 308 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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This book is the first to fully explore the life and ideas of John Marco Allegro (1923-1988), freethinker and rebel, whose work on the Dead Sea Scrolls led him to challenge the church, the team of scholars in charge of editing the Scrolls, and most conventional assumptions about the development of Christianity. As the first British member of the Scrolls editing team, Allegro shared the excitement, the insights, and the eyestrain of deciphering these invaluable ancient fragments. He made it possible for the Copper Scroll, a mysterious listing of treasure, to be opened in Manchester and did much to focus worldwide attention on the Scrolls as a whole. But he made his name - or gained his notoriety - by questioning orthodox assumptions about the Christian church's origins and authority. Allegro went on challenging the establishment all his life, and he relished the arguments he provoked. For over thirty years he campaigned for open access to the Scrolls and for wider debate about their significance. To him it was a campaign for free speech and free opinion. Judith Anne Brown's John Marco Allegro is a fascinating, probing, inside account of this irrepressibly original man. Making extensive use of Allegro's letters, lecture notes, draft manuscripts, and other previously unpublished writings, Brown brings to life afresh the extraordinary discoveries and debates that began in the caves by the Dead Sea over half a century ago.
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  • Author

    Judith Anne Brown

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    August 2007

  • Weight

    436g

  • Page Count

    308

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802863331

  • ISBN-10

    0802863337

  • Eden Code

    1159490

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