Nadene Goldfoot
His parents were: William Schoenfeld born 1869 ,Vaturleigh Dirschau, Germany, d: 1946 England , and Florence May Joseph born 1872 Frankfort on the Maine, Germany d: 1953 in England. His wife was Helen Muriel Cohn b: 1904-d:1979 of England. Hugh's grandparents were: Herman Schoenfeld and Charlotte. William was 11 years old living with his parents in Glasgow, Scotland with 6 siblings. .
September 1966 was the date of the Passover Plot copyright in my book and I read it then. In 1965 he published the controversial The Passover Plot, a book the thesis of which is that the Crucifixion was part of a larger, conscious attempt by Jesus to fulfill the Messianic expectations rampant in his time, and that the plan went unexpectedly wrong. According to Steve Turner, this was one of the books John Lennon was reading when he commented that the Beatles were "More popular than Jesus".He wrote many books on religion. But his best-known book was ''The Passover Plot,'' which argued that Jesus did not die during the Crucifixion and that a plot to make Jesus appear dead through a drug was upset by a fatal thrust of a Roman soldier's spear.
It was said about Schonfield: Schonfield was somewhat of a “maverick” independent scholar, well trained but never pursing an academic university career, but publishing dozens of books that remain of great value. by Chad Day, former student of Dr. Tabor. Tabor is the founder and director of the Original Bible Project, a non-profit organisation aimed to produce a re-ordered new translation of the Bible in English .Background · Major publications and research · The Jesus Dynasty
"Schonfield (According to the Hebrews, 142-50) offers an intriguing explanation which dovetails nicely with Tabor’s discussion of Luke’s genealogy (The Jesus Dynasty, 48-56) and also avoids any alleged wrongdoing on the part of Mary. Passing over the putative philological rationalization of Pandera as an Aramaic transliteration of the Greek Panthēra, Schonfield takes Panthera as a family name, stemming from the great-grandmother of Jesus: Estha who, upon the death of Matthan (Matthew’s genealogy; or Matthat in Luke’s), married a Syrian convert to Judaism by the name of Melchi, from the family Panthera (cognomen). So, for Schonfield, this matches both the reference in Epiphanius and John of Damascus of a Barpanther. This also places Jesus in the line of Nathan. Schonfield argues that, since Jesus’ (northern Gentile) heritage would have been frowned upon, many Jewish opponents began calling him by his family name instead of Jesus the Nazarene.
Schonfield adduces two texts for support of his hypothesis:"
Born to Jewish parents, Hugh J. Schonfield was a biblical scholar and religious writer. Schonfield became a liberal Hebrew Christian who sometimes referred to himself as a Nazarene. The Hebrew Christian movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries consisted of Jews who converted to Christianity, but worshiped in congregations separate from denominational churches. In many cases, they retained some Jewish practices and liturgy, with the addition of readings from the Christian New Testament. The movement was incorporated into the parallel Messianic Jewish movement in the late 1960s. As time passed, the term "Nazarene" came to refer to a sect of Jewish Christians who continued to observe the Torah along with gentiles who were grafted into the covenant, in contrast to gentiles who eschewed Torah observance. They are described by Epiphanius of Salamis and are mentioned later by Jerome and Augustine of Hippo. The writers made a distinction between the Nazarenes of their time and the "Nazarenes" mentioned in Acts 24:5.
In 1937 Schonfield was a expelled from the Executive Committee of International Hebrew Christian Alliance (IHCA), of which he had been a member since 1925, this organisation is now the International Messianic Jewish Alliance (IMJA). He later for a period associated with Messianic Judaism, though was bitterly disillusioned by the experience.
He has a surname which is unknown to me in my DNA studies. Most of my distant relatives are from the Pale of Settlement in Russia; countries like Lithuania and Poland, but there is no Schonfield connected to me by DNA. However, I have 3 3rd cousins at FTDNA who are Schoenfeld. As I saw earlier, Hugh had changed his surname spelling from Schoenfeld to Schonfield, anglicizing it. He was a 1st generation born in England.
His surname of Schonfield is an awful lot like Schoenfield. German (Schönfeld): habitational name from any of numerous places called Schönfeld, from Middle High German schoen 'beautiful' + velt 'open country, field'. Jewish (Ashkenazic; Schönfeld): artificial name composed of German schön 'beautiful' + Feld 'field'. Compare Schonfeld. So the origin is German and the spelling is the German spelling. . Jewish (Ashkenazic; Schönfeld): artificial name composed of German schön 'beautiful' + Feld 'field'. German (Schönfeld): 'beautiful' + Feld 'field'. Schonfield=Schoenfeld.
He was one of the founders and president of the pacifist organisation Commonwealth of World Citizens "Mondcivitan Republic". The Mondcivitan Republic was initiated by Hugh Schonfield in 1956, at which time it was known as the Commonwealth of World Citizens. The republic was conceived as a 'servant-nation', a nation without territory, whose citizens across the world would work to promote peace and unity in the aftermath of World War ITwo The Mondcivitan Republic British Isles South East Community was based in Camden, London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was largely organized by Peter Deed. The Republic ran a craft shop, housing association and a school from its headquarters in Delancey Street; it also had its own national bank and currency (the 'Mondo').
In 1937 Schonfield was excluded from membership of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (IHCA), of which he had been a founding member since 1925, due to his unwillingness to affirm the deity of Jesus. He later associated with Messianic Judaism for a while, but was bitterly disillusioned by the experience. He called himself "the Jewish historian of Christian beginnings", and at the time of his death he was described in obituaries as a "non-practicing Jew."
It is interesting that Daniel Juster, (born 1947) is an author and advocate of Messianic Judaism. He has served in the Messianic Jewish movement since 1972. The Spiritual Leader of Beth Messiah Congregation in Rockville, Maryland, corresponded with Schonfield several years ago. Schonfield confirmed to him that he indeed had had a bad experience with the… He said that after that experience he began to rethink everything and came to new conclusions… Schonfield indicated to Juster that Juster's faith in Messianic Judaism was naive and that he would have to someday "grow up" as Hugh Schonfield had done. Juster was born to a Jewish father and a nominally-Christian mother. His father died when he was nine years old, and he has spoken of its effect on his life. Not having had a Jewish mother or upbringing, he would not be considered Jewish by any mainstream Jewish religious movement and was therefore able to immigrate to Israel as the non-Jewish relative of a Jew. He would be welcome in the Reformed Jewish temple, however in the USA.
Schonfield told the Associated Press in 1969: “The practice of forgery in the early church is well attested. Paul mentioned it and the author of Revelation put a curse on anyone who added to or subtracted from what was in his book.”Answering attacks on his books by Christian churchmen, Schonfield said in another interview in 1974: “The church says the events related in the New Testament are historical. I say the New Testament is a secondary, not an authoritative, source. The New Testament, however, is the only authority of the (Anglican) Church of England, so any inquiry into its origins is held to undermine the faith.”He said: “The period of the life of Christ and the first decades of Christianity is one about which we know too little--we are trying to reconstruct it. . . . A historian has to assemble material from every source and try to fill in some of the blanks.”.
"He wrote in response to the threat of anti-Semitism in Europe, the position of the Jewish people in the United Kingdom, the birth of the modern Hebrew Christian (Messianic Jewish) movement and the utopian idealism of various political movements. These all combined with the zeitgeist of the 1920s and 1930s in the midst of a world in crisis. Political, social and religious concerns were combined in Schonfield’s unique and eclectic blend of philosophy and spirituality. His skills as a writer, publicist and political activist brought a small coterie of followers together that continues to this day in the Mondcitivan movement, for which he was nominated (unsuccessfully) to receive the Nobel prize. Power’s study takes on these diverse and contradictory aspects of his career, and sets them in the context of the intellectual history of the 20th century. " (by Owen Power, Hugh Schonfield: A Case Study of Complex Jewish Identities)He seemed to recognize Judaism as his religion in the end, but he hadspent his life studying Christianity and not Judaism, I dare say. That's whyhe gave the answer he did about Jesus and deity.
From my readings, I would say that Jesus came from a Hellenized family. There are no genealogy family source in Jewish records for Jesus, either, sothat can't be verified in our records.
The Naked archaeologist does the best work today onanything found about Jesus. The Naked Archaeologist is a television series on VisionTV in Canada and History International in the US, that was produced and hosted by the Emmy Award–winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_J._Schonfield
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-02-mn-39869-story.html
https://jamestabor.com/hugh-schonfield-and-the-origin-of-the-jesus-son-of-pantera-traditions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Juster
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