Hugh schonfield biography

Hugh Joseph Schonfield (– 26 January 1988) was a British Bible scholar specialising in the New Testament and the early development of the.
Hugh Joseph Schonfield was a British Bible scholar specialising in the New Testament and the early development of the Christian religion and church.
He became a renowned biblical researcher, the founder of a world nation and was to influence both the meek and the mighty.

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Hugh J. Schonfield

British biblical scholar specialising in the New Testament (1901-1988)

Hugh Joseph Schonfield (17 May 1901 – 26 January 1988) was a British Bible scholar specialising in the New Testament and the early development of the Christian religion and church. He was born and died in London, and educated there at St Paul's School and King's College, doing additional studies in the University of Glasgow.^[1] He was one of the founders and president of the pacifist organisation Commonwealth of World Citizens "Mondcivitan Republic".

Religious and political beliefs

Born Jewish, Schonfield became a liberalHebrew Christian who sometimes referred to himself as a Nazarene.^[2] In 1937 Schonfield was excluded from membership of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (IHCA),^[3] of which he had been a founding member since 1925, due to his unwillingness to affirm the deity of Jesus.^[4]^[5] He later associated with Messianic Judaism for a while, but was bitterly disillusioned by the experience.^[6] He call

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The Passover Plot

Conspiratorial book published in 1965 regarding the life of Jesus Christ

The Passover Plot is a 1965 book by British biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield, who also published a translation of the New Testament from a Jewish perspective.^[1] The book was adapted into a film, The Passover Plot (1976).

Schonfield's conclusions

Based on his research into the social and religious culture in which Jesus was born, lived and died, and into other literature, including the source documents of the Gospels, Schonfield reached the following conclusions:

That Jesus was a deeply religious Jewish man, probably well-versed in the teachings of the local northern sects such as the Nazarenes and Essenes.
That growing up in biblical Galilee he had a skeptical and somewhat rebellious relationship to the hierarchy and teachings mandated by the authorities (the Saducees) of the Temple in Jerusalem.
That Jewish Messianic expectation was extremely high in those times, matched to the despair caused by the Roman occupation of the land and subjugation of th
In 1965 I well remember the publication of British biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield’s controversial and best-selling book, The Passover Plot. I like millions of others read it avidly and followed the controversies closely. I remember traveling on a flight just after it came out and seeing half a dozen people reading their copies of The Passover Plot. I think it ended up selling over 2 million copies. I still have my well worn original copy with its arresting book jacket pictured below. The book’s appearance was quite a phenomenon. It was later made into a film, which unfortunately was quite poorly done and wholly disappointing.
I could never agree with the central thesis of the book–that Jesus, convinced that he was the Suffering Servant figure of Isaiah 40-53, self-consciously went about orchestrating both his crucifixion and survival of the cross. He appeared to be “dead” but what he experienced was more like a “near death,” experience, echoing many of the themes of the Psalms of one entering the very throes of death but then bei