John Marco Allegro

A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within fertility cults of the ancient Near East.

A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

Carl A. P. Ruck

Jan R. Irvin

"First published by ... Hodder and Stoughton, London, May 1970, ... Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, August 1970"--T.p. verso.

Presents translations and analyses of the ancient manuscripts, and discusses the historicity of Jesus and the role that the myths of the Essene community played in the development of Christianity

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth

Mystery of the Dead Sea scrolls revealed

Arnold A. Anderson

Originally published in 1968, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.

I (4q 158 - 4q 186)

Qumran Cave 4

Search in the Desert

In the late 1880's Shapira arrived in England with several strips of parchment, claiming that they were found in the Dead Sea area and were part of an eraly version of Deuteronomy. Experts called them forgeries. Some scholars now believe that they may actually have been a portion of the oldest Bible in the world.

John Marco Allegro

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