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Biblical scholars around the world arched their eyebrows at three BBC broadcasts of British Professor John Marc Allegro of Manchester University last January (TIME, Feb. 6). Philologist Allegro, who had worked on the team deciphering the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem, drew an imposing number of dramatic parallels between Jesus Christ and the Teacher of Righteousness mentioned in the scrolls of the Qumran community, which were found almost nine years ago near the Dead...
Last week Allegro had to admit that his fascinating story was based not on facts in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but "largely on inference. All reconstructions of historical events," said he, "are inference...
...broadcasts, Allegro had been far more assured. He spoke then of the pre-Christian Teacher's "probable" crucifixion at the hands of the "wicked priest," of his followers' hope for his return to lead the "people of the New Testament," as the Qumran community called themselves, to "a new and purified Jerusalem." The parallels seemed so pat and Allegro so sure of himself that experts assumed that he had had access to a bombshell of a discovery...
...curtain, was already trimming and tightening before the second performance. He had been scheduled to restage another ballet as well, but spent all his time on The Concert, and the City Ballet's Boss Choreographer George Balanchine had to step in at the last minute. His new work: Allegro Brillante, set to the only movement (the first)* Tctiaikovsky completed of his Third Piano Concerto. With a corps of four men and four women and with Ballerina Maria Tallchief and Leading Dancer Nicholas Magallanes dancing the solos, it was as graceful and satisfying to the eye as a perfectly tuned...
Steiner named Allegro's "Teacher of Righteousness" Jesus Ben Pandira." He described him as the leader of the Essenes, who was inspired "to impart a teaching that was to make comprehensible the mystery of Palestine-the mystery of Christ." Steiner went on to say that "after being accused of heresy and blasphemy [Jesus Ben Pandira] was stoned, and hanged upon a tree." Among the prophet's pupils, Steiner concluded, was a favorite named Netzer, who founded an Essene community at Nazareth. After the return from Egypt, Jesus was taken to Nazareth "that (in the words of St. Matthew...