Pioneer of Hebrew Christianity; Anglican priest
Paul Phillip Levertoff
Life
c. 1875 to 1954
A Jew of Orsha (Feivel) who became a central figure of Hebrew Christianity: mission, Hebrew liturgy in London and collaboration on the English Zohar. Quiñónez treats him as a pioneer between the missionary generation and later Messianic Judaism.
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Paul Phillip Levertoff (born Feivel in Orsha, Belarus; d. 31 July 1954) was, according to Quiñónez, a major pioneer of the Hebrew Christian movement: a Jewish believer in Jesus, missionary and later Anglican priest in London, who sought a 'Hebrew Christian Church' with its own liturgy.
In 1925 Levertoff published the Hebrew liturgy Meal of the Holy King for services at Holy Trinity (London). He also helped translate the Zohar into English (Soncino). Quiñónez reads this as a bridge between Jewish learning and Hebrew Christian practice, without conflating the movement with the patristic sects.
Claiming unbroken communal continuity from ancient Nazarenes to contemporary Messianic Judaism is a fragile position. What historiography supports more securely is the recurrence, across centuries, of Jews who believed in Jesus, under different names and conditions.