John Marco Allegro

[mvpena]

I present a link to some lectures of John Marco Allegro. Lectures from his very own mouth and not from some biased detractor of his awesome work.

http://tinyurl.com/yuwkdc

A short summary of who this man is:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Allegro believed that Essenism was the matrix of Christianity. He suggested that there were so many correspondences between the scroll texts and the New Testament — words and phrases, beliefs and practices, Messianic leadership, a teacher who was persecuted and possibly crucified — that he thought the derivation obvious. This brought him into conflict with the Catholic priests on the editing team, and with most church spokesmen, who maintained the orthodox assumption that the arrival of Jesus was the unique, historical, God-given event described in the Gospels. Allegro also started to look in more depth at the way the New Testament appeared to weave together a mix of folklore myth incantation and history.

He traced biblical words and phrases back to their roots in Sumerian, and showed how Sumerian phonemes recur in varying but related contexts in many Semitic, classical and other Indo-European languages. Although meanings changed to some extent, Allegro found some basic religious ideas passing on through the genealogy of words. His book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross relates the development of language on our continent to the development of myths, religions and cultic practices in many cultures. Allegro believed he could prove through etymology that the roots of Christianity, as of many other religions, lay in fertility cults; and that cultic practices, such as ingesting hallucinogenic drugs to perceive the mind of god, persisted into Christian times.

To this day I still believe there was a conspiracy surrounding the awesome work this man did, the Catholic Church, and the Israeli government.

[jackketch]

Uncannily (considering your post in my thread today) there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

A much maligned and misunderstood man, an exceptional scholar,whose ideas (the ones he meant seriously) are now gaining far more credence.

[mvpena]

Originally Posted by jackketch

Uncannily (considering your post in my thread today) there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

Yeah, your thread gave me a bit of nostalgia, and his name came to mind. I did a little search to see if anything new has come out about him. Then I find that he now has a website for him and that some of his lectures were found and released this year.

I must admit, it's been awhile since I've came across another who has kept tabs on the christian religion in a scholarly way. I used to find people like that all the time over the internet. Then came along Dan Brown's book and a crap storm of conspiracy theorists flooded the net.