Dr. Kipp Davis

@drkippd.bsky.social

PhD in Religions and Theology (Manchester, 2009), public academic, Dead Sea Scrolls detective "Cool like a glacial period."

Um, I'm going to go ahead and say, "No." Allegro's ideas were universally rejected more than three decades ago, back when I was still doing my undergrad. The truth is actually that the international team for publishing the Scrolls was comprised of a mix of (mostly) Catholic and Protestant scholars.

Dirk Deppey@deppey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As translator John Allegro noted, the Catholic Church controlled translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- which recounted Paul (The Liar) being cast from the inner circle by James (The Teacher of Righteousness), thus disproving Christianity at the source -- and used this to keep it secret for decades.