John M. Allegro
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English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar
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John M. Allegro's Degrees
- Bachelors Oriental Studies University of Manchester
- Masters Oriental Studies University of Manchester
- PhD Comparative Semitic Philology University of Manchester
Why Is John M. Allegro Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Marco Allegro 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. A number of Allegro's later books, including The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, brought him both popular fame and notoriety, and also complicated his career.
John M. Allegro's Published Works
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- Further Messianic References in Qumran Literature (1956) (76)
- The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East (1970) (63)
- Further Light on the History of the Qumran Sect (1956) (29)
- A Newly-Discovered Fragment of a Commentary on Psalm XXXVII from Qumrân (1954) (25)
- “The Wiles of the Wicked Woman” A Sapiential Work from Qumran’s Fourth Cave (1964) (8)
- Fragments of a Qumran Scroll of Eschatological Midrasim (1958) (8)
- Search in the desert (1964) (8)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979) (7)
- AN ASTROLOGICAL CRYPTIC DOCUMENT FROM QUMRAN (1964) (6)
- Uses of the Semitic Demonstrative Element z in hebrew (1955) (6)
- The Dead Sea scrolls : a reappraisal (1964) (5)
- The chosen people: A study of Jewish history from the time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba, (1971) (5)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956) (4)
- The treasure of the Copper scroll : the opening and decipherment of the most mysterious of the Dead Sea scrolls, a unique inventory of buried treasure (1960) (3)
- More Isaiah Commentaries from Qumran's Fourth Cave (1958) (3)
- A Recently Discovered Fragment of a Commentary on Hosea from Qumran's Fourth Cave (1959) (3)
- The people of the Dead Sea Scrolls : in text and pictures (1958) (2)
- The New Qumran Pesher on Azazel (1966) (2)
- AN UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT OF ESSENE HALAKHAH (4Q ORDINANCES) (1961) (2)
- The end of a road (1970) (1)
- MORE UNPUBLISHED PIECES OF A QUMRAN COMMENTARY ON NAHUM (4Q pNah) (1962) (1)
- Thrakidan, the “Lion of Wrath” and Alexander Jannaeus (1959) (1)
- THE MEANING OF HAYYÛT IN 2 SAMUEL 20, 3 (1952) (0)
- Handbook of Biblical Chronology@@@Archaeology in Biblical Research@@@The Biblical Archaeologist Reader, II@@@The Dead Sea Scriptures@@@The Treasure of the Copper Scroll@@@From Moses to Qumram (1966) (0)
- The chosen people (1971) (0)
- Book Review: The Text of Habakkuk in the Ancient Commentary from Qumran (1960) (0)
- The Copper Scroll from Qumran (1970) (0)
- Physician, Heal Thyself (1985) (0)
- A Possible Mesopotamian Background to the Joseph Blessing of Gen.xlix (1952) (0)
- Addendum To Professor Millar Burrow's Note On the Ascent From Accho in 4QpIsaa. 1) (1957) (0)
- Some Archaeological Sites and the Old Testament (1955) (0)
- Spurious Texts from Qumran (1958) (0)
- The Meaning of the Phrase Šetum Hā'Ayin in Num. Xxiv 3, 15 (1953) (0)
- The Allegro Qumran photograph collection (1996) (0)
- All manner of men (1982) (0)
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