In 1965 he published the controversial The Passover Plot, a book whose thesis 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.

Schonfield followed The Passover Plot with a sequel in 1968, Those Incredible Christians.

* The Passover Plot: New Light on the History of Jesus

The Passover Plot is the name of a 1976 film which was adapted from this book.

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* The Passover Plot ( 1965 ), a book by the Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield

Passover Plot author Hugh J. Schonfield imagined the Disciple to be a highly placed priest in the Temple and unavailable to follow Jesus in his ministry in the north.

Hugh Schonfield was a biblical scholar, one time Hebrew Christian, who was later best known for his book The Passover Plot.

At this time Hugh Schonfield's book about the fundamental ideas behind the Servant-Nation, The Politics of God, was published and received much interest, particularly because it had been preceded by the best-seller, The Passover Plot, which had created much discussion and aroused interest in the concept of Messianism.

* The Passover Plot: Special 40th Anniversary Edition by Hugh J. Schonfield ( 2005 )

* Hugh J. Schonfield ( 1965, in The Passover Plot )

* Rabbi Gideon Weitzman " Light of Redemption: A Passover Haggadah Based on the Writings of Rav Kook " Urim Publications ISBN 978-965-7108-71-0

Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola sold in the U. S. around the Jewish holiday also uses sucrose rather than HFCS and is also highly sought after by people who prefer the original taste.

An egg is one of the components of a traditional Seder plate, a traditional centerpiece of the Passover meal.

The tradition of hiding easter eggs for children to find is also similar to another Passover tradition, whereby the head of the household hides a piece of matza ( the " afikomen ") during the meal.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar.

The Greek word Πάσχα and hence the Latin form Pascha is derived from Hebrew Pesach () meaning the festival of Passover.

Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.

One interpretation of the Gospel of John is that Jesus, as the Passover lamb, was crucified at roughly the same time as the Passover lambs were being slain in the temple, on the afternoon of Nisan 14.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

This means that it is a lunation later than Jewish Passover in two years out of nineteen, years 8 and 19 of the Christian cycle.

Furthermore, because the Julian calendar's lunar age is now about four to five days behind the mean lunations, Julian Easter always follows the start of Passover.

The supposed " after Passover " rule is called the Zonaras proviso, after Joannes Zonaras, the Byzantine canon lawyer who may have been the first to formulate it.

Moses explains the meaning of the Passover: it is for Israel's salvation from Egypt, so that the Israelites will not be required to sacrifice their own sons, but to redeem them.

In Judaism, Elijah's name is invoked at the weekly Havdalah ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, and Elijah is invoked in other Jewish customs, among them the Passover seder and the Brit milah ( ritual circumcision ).

The Biblical mandate for the celebrations of Passover is in 23: 4-7:

A Hebrew translation of the song is a common element in the Passover seder in Israel.

There is a broad disagreement over chronology between Matthew, Mark and Luke on one hand and John on the other: all four agree that Jesus ' public ministry began with an encounter with John the Baptist, but Matthew, Mark and Luke follow this with an account of teaching and healing in Galilee, then a trip to Jerusalem where there is an incident in the Temple, climaxing with the crucifixion on the day of the Passover holiday.

Hence, Mark's explicit claim that the Last Supper was a Passover meal is contraindicated by his statement that Joseph of Arimathea bought a shroud for Jesus on Good Friday ; which would not have been possible if it were a festival day.

At the start of his ministry Jesus is in Jerusalem for Passover, then he is in Galilee for the following Passover, before going up to Jerusalem again for his death at a third Passover.

Since Shavuot occurs 50 days after Passover, Hellenistic Jews gave it the name Pentecost ( πεντηκοστή, " fiftieth day ").

See: Leviticus 23: 5, 6 ) ( ) is an additional name for Passover.

" The publication of its Passover haggadah by the Joseph Jacobs Advertising Agency beginning in 1932 made Maxwell House a household name with many American Jewish families.

The flower blooms early in spring, which leads to the common name Pasque flower, since Pasque refers to Easter ( Passover ).

From the earliest Christian documents, such as the Didache, the understanding follows this pattern: that the bread and wine that is blessed and consumed at the end of the ( transformed ) Passover meal literally is the body and blood of Jesus, and was treated accordingly: " Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the name of the Lord ; for it was in reference to this that the Lord said: ' Do not give that which is holy to dogs '" ( Jurgens § 6 ).

He was born at Torrehermosa, in the Kingdom of Aragon, on 24 May 1540, on the Feast of Pentecost, called in Spain " the Pasch ( or " Passover ") of the Holy Ghost ", hence the name Paschal.