ABSTRACT
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS ... Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. [John 19:19-22]
The said Dr.Pordage hath had for some weeks together in his house ... Everard, and one Tawny, who stiled himself King of the Jews. [John Pordage, Innocencie Appearing Through the dark Mists of Pretended Guilt (1655), p. 9]
Theauroam Tannijahhh
About Saturday, 1 January 1653 it appears from his own account that Tany was commanded by his ‘holy Iehovah, to retract from speaking unto any Person for 34 dayes, and 21 of the same days to see no person’.1 Tany was to claim that during this purificatory ritual his soul was infused with the fiery and everlasting love of God as ‘Iehovah’ accepted the sacrifice of his servant, consecrating his anointed with the ‘terrible and everlasting burnings’ of his fiery love.2 On the fourteenth day, ‘being Sabbatty’, Tany transcribed an ‘Edictory Unto all the Jewes the whole earth over’. This ‘Edict’ was to be engraved in brass, and sent ‘unto the Synagogue of the Jews in Amsterdam’. Tany greeted the Jews as his brethren and signed the proclamation with his new name and titles, ‘Theauroam Tannijahhh, King of the seven Nations, and Captain General under my Master Jehovah, and High-Priest and Leader of the Peoples unto HIERUSALEM my ancient seat Royal’.3
