 Herod the Great, he called himself the king of the Jews, the one who tried to kill Jesus as an infant. He viewed himself as that, but only Jesus truly was. And one more, the Talmud, which was written by various rabbis between the 2nd and 5th century. It says this in the Talmud, On the eve of the Passover, Yeshu, and that's a Hebrew form of the word Jesus, the name Jesus. On the eve of Passover, Yeshu was hanged.