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RARE "The Passover Plot" Hugh J. Schonfield Hand Signed Book:
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Up for sale a RARE!"The Passover Plot" Hugh J. Schonfield Hand Signed First Edition Book Dated 1965.
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Hugh Joseph Schonfield(London, 17 May 1901 – 24 January 1988, London) was a British Bible scholar specialising in theNew Testamentand the earlydevelopment of the Christian religion and church. He was born in London, and educated there atSt Paul's SchoolandKing's College, doing postgraduate religious studies in theUniversity of Glasgow, Doctor of Sacred Literature. He was one of the founders and president of thepacifistorganisationCommonwealth of World Citizens"Mondcivitan Republic". At one time he was president of theH.G. WellsSociety. He founded the "Mondcivitan Republic,"Commonwealth of World Citizens, in 1956.Schonfield was aliberalHebrew Christian. In 1937 Schonfield was expelled from the Executive Committee ofInternational Hebrew Christian Alliance(IHCA), of which he had been a member since 1925, (this organisation is now theInternational Messianic Jewish Allianceor IMJA). He later associated with Messianic Judaism for a while, but was bitterly disillusioned by the experience. Schonfield was one of the originalDead Sea Scrollsteam members. Schonfield wrote over 40 books including commercially successful books in the fields of history and biography as well as religion. In 1958 his non-ecclesiastical historical translation of the New Testament was published in the UK and the US, titledThe Authentic New Testament. This aimed to show without idealised interpretation the meaning intended by the writers while maintaining the original structures. A revised version appeared in 1985 titledThe Original New Testament. In 1965 he published the controversialThe Passover Plot, a book the thesis of which is that theCrucifixionwas part of a larger, conscious attempt by Jesus to fulfill the Messianic expectations rampant in his time, and that the plan went unexpectedly wrong. Schonfield followedThe Passover Plotwith a sequel in 1968,Those Incredible Christians. This was also described as controversial, but had less impact than the earlier book.An additional aspect of his work was the revision of theHebrewwriting systemInThe New Hebrew Typography, published in 1932, he argued for a significantly revised version of theHebrew alphabetmodelled after theLatin alphabet, including a capital-lowercase distinction, no final forms, a vertical emphasis, and serifs. This alphabet has not been adopted.