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Hugh Schonfield
A Case Study of Complex Jewish Identities
by Owen Power
Foreword by Richard S. Harvey
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Owen Power worked for many years in London as a training manager delivering skills training to people who were long-term unemployed with additional support needs. He served as a diversity & equality advisor on a number of government social projects and produced an audio information cassette on safer sex and HIV awareness for people without sight for World AIDS Day 1992. In 2001, Power decided upon a career change and he started studying at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. His first book, Hugh Schonfield, is based on his dissertation. Power is currently researching his second book with the working title--Jewish Believers in Jesus: Christians Masquerading as Jews?
"From his selective reading of Scripture, Schonfield fashioned an ideal for universal peace. He proclaimed a form of democratized messianism, modeling a solely human, Jewish Jesus for the formation of a worldwide servant nation. Schonfield's own strong individualism undermines all attempts at fitting him into any neat group category--indeed, as Power valuably shows, it challenges the very categories of identity themselves."
--George J. Brooke, Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of Manchester
"Hugh Schonfield was politically engaged with the institutional world of Hebrew Christianity and Messianic Judaism, and he was a well-known broadcaster and popularizer. Owen Power's study of these various aspects of Schonfield's life and thought sheds much light on this idiosyncratic and fiercely independent thinker, and makes some important suggestions for understanding the complexities of modern messianic identity."
--Daniel R. Langton, Professor of the History of Jewish-Christian Relations, University of Manchester