With this book, Owen Power offers the first full-length
intellectual history of the thinker Hugh Schonfield (1901-1988).
Power contextualises Schonfield and his work in the spheres of
Jewish ideology and Messianic Jewish politics as a means to explain
the complicated nature of Messianic Jewish identity. There are many
problems in making sense of the varied claims made about the
Jewishness of Jewish Believers in Jesus-as there is a striking lack
of agreement as to their Jewish status among halakhic
authorities-and there is no real consensus among Messianic Jews
themselves in answering the question, "Who is a (Messianic) Jew?"
On the other hand, the attitude of many Jewish commentators
regarding Messianic Jews is that they are traitors and apostates
pretending to be Jews-Christian missionaries hell-bent on enticing
Jews from their communities to the welcoming embrace of the Church.
Normative Jewish opinion tends to treat Jewish Believers in Jesus
as a monolithic group and thus fails to recognise the wide range of
groups and individuals who claim to be Messianic Jews, even if
there is among them little consensus as to what such a label means.
Schonfield's case both reinforces such convictions and
problematizes them.
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