The Pentecost Revolution by Hugh J Schonfield

The Pentecost Revolution by Hugh J Schonfield

In this scholarly yet readable book Schonfield tries to unravel the mysteries behind the development of early Christianity in the thirty years between the crucifixion of Jesus and the Fall of Jerusalem.
It builds on the famous work 'The Passover Plot' by the same author. It is a companion reader also to 'Those Incredible Christians' and 'The Politics of God' and provides challenging insights into a world we thought we understood.
We discover a movement amongst Jewish people of the time who were not concerned with establishing a new religion but rather with a new social social order - a new Israel.
Thus the writer lifts this early Nazorean group out of the context of Roman Christianity and clears the path for a fresh look at the meaning of the Messianic message.

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