The Passover Plot by Stephen A Engelking

The Passover Plot by Stephen A Engelking

Finally back in print, this special 40th anniversary edition of Dr. Schonfield's international multimillioncopy bestseller is set to rock the establishment view of the life of Jesus all over again.

There is probably no other figure in modern Jewish historical research who is more controversial or famous than Hugh J. Schonfield, who once said: The scholars deplore that I have spilled the beans to the public. Several of them have said to me, 'You ought to have kept this just among ourselves, you know.'

What he did to spill the beans was present historical evidence suggesting that Jesus was a mortal man, a young genius who believed himself to be the Messiah and deliberately and brilliantly planned his entire ministry according to the Old Testament prophecies--even to the extent of plotting his own arrest, crucifixion and resurrection.

Since Schonfield's death in 1988, his popularity and the interest in his prodigious work, which included over 40 books, has drawn increasing attention, particularly outside Judaism. In fact, it is probably fair to say that his contribution to the Gentile understanding of Jewish aspirations among those within the Christian cultural framework has been without parallel. In true Christian tradition, he has also been the cause of much contention.

In the wake of resurgent interest in religious history spurred by Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, this 40th anniversary edition of The Passover Plot is set to engage a completely new generation of readers searching for truth.

Hugh J. Schoonfield (May 1901 – January 24, 1988) was a British Biblical scholar who specialized in the New Testament and the early history of Christianity. Schonfield was a Jew who identified as a Nazarene, indicating that he believed, as a Jew, that the Messiah had arrived in the person of Jesus, as foretold in Judaism's Hebrew Scriptures. He also believed that Jesus was aware of and believed in himself as the Israeli Messiah, and that he made a conscious effort to ensure that the predictions were fulfilled in his everyday life (and death); and that Jesus did not mean to create a new religion, but rather to lead to the fulfillment of God's covenant with the Jewish people as recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Wikipedia