Distortioxis in Gospels Regarding Jesus the Jew `Accused'—Strong Morgulas Novel
Guilt in the holocaust, the after- takes to deliver a Holy Day address
Are Exposed in 'Those Incredible Christians effects,
years after the period of in an orthodox synagogue.
'
Dr. Mugh J. Schonfield pursues of the Christian appeared to be Christology of Jahn," of the- Jesus
the theme he commenced in his -conspicuously absent from their of John who "sets much store by
controversy-insPiring The Pass- composition. In extreme cases, miracles as witnessing to Ins div-
over Plot" by -asserting: anti-Semitism reared its ugly bead. inity" of the sort of bickering por-
"Most Christian clerics will not My being a Jew was sufficient frayed in John in width "Jesus is
be prepared 'to admit, at least not warrant for deckling that i was made to set himself wholly apart
very emphatically, that the Jesus writing polemically in a from his people, unrelated to them
of history was other than the Jesus conspiratorial attempt to discredit and slanging them." Dr. Schon-
of theology. The more scholarly Christianity. Of course no one in field comments on this score:
may venture on a halfway admis- his uses has imagined this, and "Thank goodness, the Jesus of
sion, which amounts to contending no one reading my book carefully history sever 'was him that, or
that the Church under inspiration and honestly could entertain such behaved Wm that! John the
became better informed about a foolish notion. My work in fact I Greek, putting words into his
Jesus than he was about himself. sustained faith, faith in the God mouth, simply cannot measure
Liberal theologians are doing a whom Jesus the Jew worshiped up to how a truly divine person
good deal of pouring new wine into and upheld the greatness of the would speak, or even a supreme-
old wineskins these days. What is man who believed himself to have ly wise man. But insisting that
not readily 'perceived is the root been charged by God with a the Jew Jesus was really not a
cause why Christian thinking, unique mission, that of Messiah Jew but manifest God in a Jew-
instinctively as it -would seem, the king of Israel of the line of ish 'body be has effectively killed
shapes itself to a pattern involving David. What my investigation has his, thesis by presenting a tray-
the apprehension of God through removed was not basic Christian-
esty and caricature of divinity.
the personality of a man. There is ity, but the Gentilism which had It was John who was guilty of
still a primordial fear of an Other- invested it with the trappings of deicide, not the Jews.
ness beyond the grasp of human a different religious environment "The intention of John's diets_
definition and explanation. The of thought. There had to be an tology was to silence the docet-
mind, therefore, inclines either to acute perception of the pressures
ists who urged that Jesus Christ
doubt or deny the existence of of that environment to explain , the was not truly man. This he may
what we call God, or seeks corn- palimpsest of a Jesus of theology
have done, but to the discerning
fort in the proposition that the imposed upon the Jesus of only at the cost of demonstrating
Otherness can be brought into as- history."
that the man was palpably not
sociation with ourselves in a man-
Dr. Schonfield pursues his ori-
God. When the Jesus of the
ner which sublimates our fear of ginal theme in his new book,
Fourth Gospel says, 'I and my
the alien . . ."
discusses at length the Sibylline
father are one,' he is right,
Oracles, comments on the role
In the companion volume to
though not in the sense the
of Jews as missionaries, touches
"The Passover Plot," his "Those
Evangelist intended: be is one
upon "the subject of Jewish
Incredible Christians," published
with John his creator and only-
evangelism and its prophetic
by Bernard Geis Associates and
begetter."
message to the nations," call-
distributed by Grove Press, Dr.
In this fashion, a thorough in-
ing it of the utmost importance vestigation is made of the Gospels,
Schonfield makes these challenging
in
considering
the
character
of
assertions:
of an evangelism the interpreta-
Christianity, states that "the
"Christianity for most of those
tions of which emerged in deicide
Jewish impact on the Graeco- charges and in anti-Semitism. The
who profess it, and for most
Roman
world
was
extensive,
and
others as well, is a religion, and
truth is presented, untruths ex-
after 151 BCE increasingly in- posed, an appeal is made to real-
they are not aware that it was
fluential," and adds: "The anti- ities of history. Like Schonfield's
ever anything else. It is supposed
Semitic manifestations which
"The Passover Plot," his "Those
that this religion was instituted
accompanied this development
Incredible Christians" will surely
by Jesus and his Apostles and
were net wholly due to resent- create endless debate. Which is
commonly accepted that a suf-
ment of Jewish privileges and to the good: out of it must emerge
ficient description of its begin-
social insularity: they 'were due
fairness in viewing the Christian-
nings is contained in the New
in large measure to „the clash Jewish theme relating to Jesus the
Testament and that its basic
between
monotheism
and
poly-
Jew.
tenets are smumarized in the
theism. This collision arose not
Deeds. Joins is often referred to
only because through the Jewish
as the "Founder of Christianity,
dispersion the opposing ideol -
as if be belonged to that select
ogies were thrown together, but
company of great teachers of
because the Jews had now be-
religion who have appeared at
come zealously missionary."
various times. Christians think
He calls attention to the Sibyl-
of him especially as God Meer-
line Oracles, speaking of Jews as
Lev Bezymenski, who served on
ante .
"a holy race of godfearing men," Marshal Zhukov's staff in the last
"The Christian Scriptures ap-
"a
royal
tribe,"
"the
people
of
the
pear to sanction such a view, yet
war and who now is the editor of
the evidence when strictly ex- great God . . . they who are to be the USSR journal Novoye Vremia,
the guides of life to all mankind" exposes many hitherto unknown
amined tells heavily against the
proposition that Jesus bad any and he states: "The Jewish mes- documents in "The Death of
idenfion to hwnish a revelation sage could not fail to be universal- Adolph Hitler," published by Har-
of God or to found a religion. He istic, and spread by missionary court, Brace and World (757 3rd,
effort as well as by example, since NY17).
was a Sew addressing himself to
fellow Jews, for -whom there was it proclaimed the existence of one
Bezymenski shows that Hitler
universal God, and directed itself and his amour Eva Braun died of
no requirement that he should
to emancipating the heathen from poisoning and documented autopsy
make God known, since this had
already been achieved by Moses idolatry and immorality."
charts indicate that the same
and by the ancient prophets and
The Jewish missionary enter- poison was used on Eva and
sages whose inspiration both he prise, the flooding over the Roman Hitler's dogs.
and his audience acknowledged.
Empire of a wave from the Jewish
The story of the death of Josef
What Jesus proclaimed was re-
Messianic explosion, developed Goebbels'- family is another most
pentance and the requirements conflicting opinions. "The name interesting chapter in this book,
of the Kingdom of God, the ad-
Jesus coupled with the mysterious showing the fears of Goebbels. al-
vent of which was the Jewish title Christus, employed among the though he was assured the victors
Hope, and he felt charged with Jews with reference to the world would not molest his family.
the responsibility as the Messiah
ruler they foretold, .meant that a
The death of the Goebbels chil-
identified with_ the inauguration superstition had arisen that if al-
dren on -their father's order is
of that Kingdom. There could be lowed to grow unchecked might classified as murder, and in his
no question for him of a new re- undermine the whole structure of description of signposts serving as
ligion arising from his teaching Roman security."
a yardstick in this action the
and activities, quite apart from
Dr. Schonfield proceeds to re- Russian author states:
it being needless, firstly -because
view the historical occurrences,
"Anne Frank was a child. Maria
be believed the coming of the the -role of Paul and his converts,
Kingdom of God to he imminent, of the two Sanhedrins, of the de Rolnikaite, who was imprisoned in
and secondly became the . Scrip- jure Sanhedrin that was regarded the Warsaw Ghetto and left notes
tures , declared that • redeemed by the Zealots as pro-Roman and of similar impact, was also only
14 years old. Among the victims
Israel would be the iaMarsimart apostate.
for' bringing knowledge alf, Cad
The historic ma is Issesraghip of Babi Yar, of Lidice, there were
to the nations."
_xerriewedomi the imatedoimeittr many children—and a great many
The eminent author, whoie ear- hi the Christian Scrip
Thlares are perished in Dresden."
lier work still is a subject for ialleitted. especially in the chap-
But it is the six of Goebbels' and
heated debate in theological circles ter ''Sfalthhos Peter II Pay not -600,000, the author notes. In
states that Christianity having be- Paul," in which it is pointed out this respect, and in the presenta-
come a new religion it "progres- that "is the deception of future tion of the many documents, the 23
sively divested itself of associa- generations, Christianity was Photographs, t h e accumulated
converted from a Jeivisli move- data, the author revives the Hitler-
tion with the Jewish people and
ment centered on Jesus as Mes- Braun and the Goebbels stories
the Jewish faith" and his "Those
siah into a new religion worship- and presents illuminating facts
Incredible Chrislians" discusses
the transformation and exposes ing him as the Divine Son of regarding a fuehrer who fomented
the misrepresentations in New God. Henceforth CI ristians so much tragedy.
would be entitled to believe on
Testament writings.
The Tigers won the American
Referring to the attacks upon the evidence of the' falsified and
concocted records that the Faith League pennant for the eighth
him for his views in "The Pass-
over Plot," he declares that "the • they -espoused was _iindeed that time in 1968. They have won the
animus of scone people left me which mace sad for all had been World Series three times—defeat-
ing the Cubs in 1935 and 1945 and
gasping. The vaunted love which -delivered to the saints."
is the expose -of "The the Cardinals in 1968.
Was declared -to be the hallmark . • And there
.
.
the extermination camps, upon
survivors, the meeting with an SS
man and the belief that there was
deceit outside Germany — these
feelings are intermingled in a
strong novel by Jerrold Morgulas.
Published by Doubleday, Mor-
gulas' "The Accused" emphasizes
an SS man's reactions when he
settles in this country; the torment
endured by a survivor — now a
janitor in a synagogue — when he
encounters a tormentor, and the
feeling of a rabbi, also a survivor.
Then there is a judge who par-
ticipated in the trials of the ac-
cused in Germany, a man who
never observed and now under-
These interlinked events and
feelings mark Morgulas' novel "The
Accused" which has many matters
to arouse debate and which re-
calls events that have marred the
good will and the peace of man-
kind.
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