Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth

by Allegro, John Marco

• ISBN13: 9780879752415
• ISBN10: 0879752416
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-04-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

This provocative book examines the devastating impact of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls on official Church dogma & argues that what was conceived as myth was misused & misrepresented as historical fact.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
Foreword
Preface to the Second Revised Edition
Preface to the First Revised Edition	p. 1
Acknowledgments	p. 5
Introduction	p. 9
The Essene Library	p. 17
The Lion of Wrath	p. 31
Secacah in Galilee	p. 44
Judgement and Hell-fire	p. 62
Joshua, Son of Nun, and the Teacher of Righteousness	p. 76
Mortal Teacher to Immortal Christ	p. 94
The Celibate Ideal	p. 107
The Love Feast	p. 120
The Noble Lie	p. 137
Tyre, Once Proud City	p. 152
Helen, the Harlot of Tyre, and Light of the World	p. 167
The Day-spring from on High	p. 177
'Will the real Jesus Christ please stand up?'	p. 190
'And on this Rock...'	p. 204
Know Thyself	p. 223
Appendix 1: 4Q Therapeia	p. 235
Appendix 2	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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