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John Marco Allegro

Judith Anne Brown
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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original man.Making extensive use of Allegro's letters, lecture notes, draft manuscripts, and other previously unpublished writings, Brown brings to life afresh the extraordinary discoveries and debates that began in the caves by the Dead Sea over half a century ago.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Anne Brown EAN: 9780802863331 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 435 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-08-24 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Biography: general, Christianity

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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Anne Brown EAN: 9780802863331 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 435 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-08-24 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Biography: general, Christianity

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