J.M. Allegro (1956). "More Unpublished Pieces of a Qumran Commentary on Nahum [4Q pNah]". Journal of Biblical Literature. 75: 304–308.

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East A ‘close encounter’ of truthfully informed kind might be the last thing your poor rattled pretensions can endure apparently. In fact why don’t you stop reading here for the sake of your easily shattered composure while I shed a little light on your carefully darkened landscape – avert your gaze from here on for the sake of your eyes, accustomed as they are to the darkness, unable to bear light. It seems he thus realized a 'stealth motive," revenge – to smear Christian belief, damage it by equating it with – dirtbag druggie, the 'hippie' movement he (like many) held in contempt.

John Marco Allegro was a scholar who challenged orthodox views of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible and the history of religion, with books that attracted popular attention and scholarly derision. So once this is understood we can then LOOK at these myths, and interpretations, and understand that we need to look even deeper. IE more ancient than the solar myths were the lunar myths of the Great Mother/Goddess. And we realize that the solar myth-makers suppressed the Goddess and imposed their own dualistic interpretations on the universe, and the fungi and myths surrounding them. Wien; München; Zürich: Fritz Molden: Der Geheimkult des heiligen Pilzes. Rauschgift als Ursprung unserer Religionen

Considering how fragile the threads by which your composure hangs are – danger Will Robinson – warning warning: Beware Allegro’s END OF A ROAD (1970) his infamous sequel to SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS. You best be careful to steer the hell clear of that thing if you value your ‘blissful ignorance’– so riled by the informed perspective I speak from. As a specialist in Semitic languages (Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic) – NOT Sumerian – an honest scholar would rely on a specialist in Sumerian, to collaborate with. Allegro didn't bother – suspicious avoidance. That Savior was found in Jesus Christ, the Son of God who was crucified outside Jerusalem and rose again that all who believe in Him might have eternal life. This Jesus Christ, first promised to the mother and father of all humanity, has won salvation for all humankind.Throughout the centuries, God added more details to this promise. This Savior would be the son of Abraham, the heir of David who would rule from David’s throne forever. He would be pierced for our iniquities, die, and rise again on the third day.

No critic was as qualified as Allegro, so all they could say is "I'm not qualified to comment on the philology, but those who are disagree with Allegro..." Santa as he looks today (also the loving figure he now is) was designed by Coca Cola through a huge marketing campaign starting in 1931. Before that Santa Claus was depicted quite differently and apperance would also vary a lot from place to place, different clothes in different colors (often blue, green, tan ect), but rarely red until around 1900. He was also sometimes depicted as a elf or a gnome besides a human. It’s been 30 years since Trainspotting and Irvine Welsh is the subject of a new documentary, 'Choose Irvine Welsh'. Should you? An extremely difficult book to get through. The concept is great, but even though the book is intended for the general reader, it fails to accomplish that. Any unique idea or point that the author tries to make, is soon bogged down by a technical linguistic explanation. The author is so specialized (in ancient Sumerian linguistics) that the reader has to take his word for it when he shows his evidence. There are many references, but the general reader, myself included, is not given the tools to connect the information to the concepts in the text.

Judah K. Lefkovits, "The Copper Scroll (3Q15): A Reconsideration", in Lawrence H. Schiffman; Shani Tzoref, eds. (2010). The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60. Leiden: Brill. p.181. ISBN 9789004185050. Weston W. Fields (2009). The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History. Vol.1. Leiden: Brill. p.211. ISBN 978-9004175815. So you best be sure you don’t EVER read END OF A ROAD. Because that’s the one where Allegro pulls out all stops deploying ‘dirt bag druggies’ rhetoric to invoke the bad reputation of trippers in the contemporaneous public eye of his era (not their own, duh) – as a brush to tar the new testament and foundations of early Christianity with. Allegro, John M. (2009) The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, 40th anniversary edition, Gnostic Media, ISBN 978-0-9825562-7-6.