Kurtze beſchreibung vnd Erzehlung /
von einem Juden / mit Namen Ahaſverus:by Anonymous

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Kurtze beſchreibung vnd Erzehlung / von einem Juden / mit Namen Ahaſverus:

Welcher bey der Creutzigung Chriſti ſelbſt Perſönlich ge⸗ weſen / auch das Crucifige vber Chriſtum hab helffen ſchreyen / vnnd vmb Barrabam bitten / hab auch nach der Creutzigung Chriſti nimmer gen Jeruſalem können kom⸗ men / auch ſein Weib vnnd Kinder nimmer geſehen: vnnd ſeit hero im Leben geblieben / vnd vor etlich Jahren gen Hamburg kom⸗ men / auch Anno 1599. Im December zu Dantzig ankommen.

Es hatt auch Paulus von Eitzen / der H. Schrifft D. vnd Biſchoff von Schleß⸗ wig / beneben dem Rector der Schulen zu Hamburg / mit jhme conferiert: von den Orientaliſchen Landen / nach Chriſti zeit was ſich verloffen / hatt er ſolchen guten bericht darvon gege⸗ ben / das ſie ſich nicht gnug darüber ver⸗ wundern können.

Matthei am 16.

Warlich ich ſage euch / es ſtehen allhie etliche / die werden den Todt nit ſchme⸗ cken / biß das ſie deß Menſchen Sohn kommen ſehen in ſein Reich.

Gedruckt zu Leyden / bey Chriſtoff Creutzer. Anno 1602.

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A short description and account of a Jew named Ahasuerus:

He was himself personally present at the crucifixion of Christ; he also helped shout Crucify him against Christ and asked for Barabbas. After Christ’s crucifixion, he could never return to Jerusalem and could never again see his wife and children. He has remained alive ever since, came to Hamburg several years ago, and also arrived in Danzig in December 1599.

Paul von Eitzen, doctor of Holy Scripture and bishop of Schleswig, together with the rector of the schools in Hamburg, also conferred with him. He gave so good an account of what had occurred in the Eastern lands since Christ’s time that they could not marvel at it enough.

Matthew 16

Truly I say to you, some are standing here who shall not taste death until they see the Son of Man come into his kingdom.

Printed at Leiden by Christoff Creutzer. 1602.

Analysis

The title leaf assigns a role in Jesus’s crucifixion to a named Jew and says that he could never return to ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM or his family. It uses Matthew 16 to frame his continued life. These are the pamphlet’s Christian claims, not evidence that the person or events existed. The leaf also reports Hamburg and Danzig sightings and prints a Leiden imprint; neither the sightings nor the claimed printing place is established by this leaf.