How a Scroll Scholar Went Bad

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John Strugnell, a chief editor of the Dead Sea Scroll publication team, called him “the stone in the soup.” Harvard’s Frank Cross, another member of the team, said he was a charlatan.

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Endnotes

J.M. Allegro, Broadcast Talk for BBC Northern Home Service, January 23, 1956, in Judith Anne Brown, John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 77.

The London Times, March 16, 1956 in Brown, p. 92.

Letter from J.M. Allegro to Hodder and Stoughton, October 23, 1968, in Brown. p. 186.

John Marco Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970), pp. 192–194, in Brown, p. 199.