Ariel Hessayon
Ashgate
Hardback
488
2007
This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures: Thomas Totney (1608-1659) a London puritan goldsmith and veteran of the Civil War. In November 1649 after fourteen weeks of self-abasement fasting and prayer Totney experienced a profound spiritual transformation and declared himself TheaurauJohn Tany 'a Jew of the Tribe of Reuben' descended from Aaron the High Priest. During his prophetic phase Tany enacted a millenarian mission to restore the Jews to their own land and wrote a number of remarkable but elusive works. By contextualizing and then unraveling the mind of this exceptional person this book provides a clearer view of what it was like living in the wake of the English Revolution when freed men and women spoke their minds and challenged the times.
Ashgate
Hardback
488
2007
This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures: Thomas Totney (1608-1659) a London puritan goldsmith and veteran of the Civil War. In November 1649 after fourteen weeks of self-abasement fasting and prayer Totney experienced a profound spiritual transformation and declared himself TheaurauJohn Tany 'a Jew of the Tribe of Reuben' descended from Aaron the High Priest. During his prophetic phase Tany enacted a millenarian mission to restore the Jews to their own land and wrote a number of remarkable but elusive works. By contextualizing and then unraveling the mind of this exceptional person this book provides a clearer view of what it was like living in the wake of the English Revolution when freed men and women spoke their minds and challenged the times.