Those Incredible Christians by Hugh J Schonfield

Those Incredible Christians by Hugh J Schonfield

Those Incredible Christians is written as a companion to the bestseller, The Passover Plot. It continues the story after Jesus' crucifixion to the movements surrounding the early disciples and how the message of the gospels developed. It demonstrates with considerable evidence how the understanding of the role and person of Messiah became adapted and corrupted and how the conflicts and power struggles with the Church at Rome, and the Roman Empire emerged.

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