Healers of the Dead Sea

1985 American film

Healers of the Dead Sea

Qumran, Home of the "Healers of the Dead Sea"

Produced by| John Marco Allegro
Douglas Edwards
Narrated by| John Marco Allegro

Release date

* 1985 (1985)

Running time

| 30 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Healers of the Dead Sea is a 30-minute CBS documentary regarding Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes produced by John Marco Allegro and Douglas Edwards.[1][2]

Allegro narrated and had begun work on the film for the BBC in 1980, under the alternative title "The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls". The film charted the discovery of the scrolls, showed how they had survived and emphasized their importance, guiding the viewer around the first century landscape of Qumran. Allegro aimed to increase public interest in the discovery by letting them imagine their way around the various features, showing its orientation towards Jerusalem where the expected river of life-giving waters were assumed to have come from in some prophesied time in the future. It guided the viewer around the banquet hall, scriptorium, watercourses and baptismal cisterns to give a feeling of reality to the times. Allegro also starts to discuss how to do Essene healing magic.[3]

## See also

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* The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian myth
* The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

## References

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1. ^ Joan E. Taylor (15 November 2012). The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford University Press. pp. 305–. ISBN 978-0-19-955448-5. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
2. ^ Taylor, Joan., 'Roots, Remedies and Properties of Stones': The Essenes, Qumran and Dead Sea Pharmacology' published in JJS 60/2 Autumn 2009, pp.226-244, modified note 6.
3. ^ Judith Anne Brown (2005). John Marco Allegro: The Maverick Of The Dead Sea Scrolls. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 265–. ISBN 978-0-8028-2849-1. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

## External links

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* John M Allegro – Healers of the Dead Sea – post 1985, Produced by CBS Television, with Douglas Edwards
* John Marco Allegro Scrolls Scholar and Freethinker - Itinerant Musician and Spiritual Pilgrim Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
* Healers of the Dead Sea, Narration on YouTube

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