Richard Brothers

Richard Brothers (* 1757 ; † 1824 ) was a British naval officer and the founder of a special theological teaching.

Brothers experienced apocalyptic visions from 1791 . At this point the former naval officer was already retired. One of his visions made him want to bring the Jews back to Israel. Brothers believed that the Jews had mixed up with the British population, but that they were in the dark about their true identity. He is considered the originator and first advocate of British Israelism , a special theological doctrine according to which the British and other northern European peoples descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel . Brothers considered themselves a direct descendant of King David .

Individual evidence

^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Brothers, Richard (1757-1824) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 103 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Brothers, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Naval officer, founder of Anglo-Israelism
DATE OF BIRTH	1757
DATE OF DEATH	1824

[1] Randall Herbert Balmer: Brothers, Richard (1757-1824) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 103 (English).