Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts traditional church teaching? John Allegro addresses these and many other intriguing questions in this fascinating account of what may be the most significant archaeological discovery of the twentieth century....

Series of lectures, by scholars, on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the information they give us about the development of the Hebrew Bible, about Judaism at the turn of the era and about the roots of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

"Why a handful of Biblical scholars conspired to suppress the revolutionary contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls"--Jacket subtitle.