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...With regard to John Allegro's "mushroom" theology [June 8], it may be that some scholar in the future, arrogating to himself a similar kind of mushrooming philological method, will remark that the name Allegro means "lively" or "fast." He might also notice the similarity between "Allegro" and "allegory." And if he should reach the conclusion that "John Lively" was simply a metaphor for a fast-talking type who never really existed, who could blame...
...Jesus was a mushroom, then as his followers, we are only spores...
...There are a lot of emporia along the game board. We are going to discuss clothes stores first, because I am eager to get in a word about Krackerjack's, which is the mother toadstool in the mushroom cellar of the Square...
...behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes that "stumbling block" is, in fact...
Besides rejecting such word games, critics have pointed out that there is more historical evidence that Jesus actually lived in Judea than that the mushroom ever did. Last week 15 distinguished theologians and philologists -including Sir Godfrey Driver, one of the chief translators of the Old Testament in the New English Bible -took to the letters columns of the Times of London to denounce Allegro's book as "an essay in fantasy rather than philology," which is "not based on any philological or other evidence" of merit...