(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

London

1795

COGGAN, G. A Testimony of Richard Brothers, [i]n an Epistolary Address to the People of England, on the Impending Judgments of God; with Original Letters, Lately Sent to the Queen, Duke of Gloucester, etc. pp. (3), 556-628. * Bound with: A Letter to the Publisher of Brother's Prophecies, by Mrs. S. Green: In which She Bears Testimony to the Sanity of Mr. Brothers, and Relates Several Visions, which She has had in Confirmation of His Mission.

Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 382, no. 22 and p. 383, no. 28

Richard Brothers (1757-1824) was a self-styled prophet of the Jews of England. As there was some question as to Brother's mental competence, there was appended to his book of prophecies the work by a character witness, Mrs. S. Green, who evidently was a visionary in her own right. Brothers propounded the theory of Anglo-Israelism, the belief that the English are the descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Brothers styled himself as the “Nephew of the Almighty” as he considered himself descended from one of the brothers of Jesus and claimed he would be revealed as prince of the Hebrews and ruler of the world. Despite the fact that Brothers succeeded in attracting a following, he was commited to a mental asylum for the last thirty years of his life.