2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British Dead Sea Scrolls scholar — who controversially argued in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) that early Christianity derived from a fertility cult using Amanita muscaria mushrooms — whose academic career was destroyed by the book.
American biblical scholar at Columbia who controversially claimed to have discovered the 'Secret Gospel of Mark' at Mar Saba monastery in 1958 — and whose work on Jesus the Magician and Clement of Alexandria contributed to scholarly debates about early Christian diversity.