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ALLEGRO, JOHN M. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340128755). Boards. Hardback, 157mm x 242mm tall (6" x 9.5" approx.). Pp xxii, 349 with 2 colour-plates & 5 text figs. Very good, in the original black boards/gilt spine title/illustrated coloured endpapers, and with repaired but sound illustrated dust-wrapper. A previous owner has tipped a newspaper clipping onto the verso of the front free endpaper. "From Professor Sir Godfrey Driver, F.B.A. and others. Sir, A good deal of publicity has been given to a book (The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross) by Mr John Allegro, formerly a lecturer at Manchester University. This is a work upon which scholars would not normally wish to comment. But, the undersigned, specialists in a number of relevant disciplines and men of several faiths and none, feel it their duty to let it be known that the book is not based on any philological or other evidence which they can regard as scholarly. In their view this work is an essay in fantasy rather than philology" [there follow the names and positions of fifteen signatories]. Very Good/Repaired.
Offered for GBP 30.00 = appr. US$ 49.08 by: Christopher Baron - Book number: 002773
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