SYMBOLISM - JEWISH MYTHOLOGY - ALPHABETS Three versions of the acronym, INRI, said to have been written on a scroll above the crucified Christ. The text at the top is the Latin version Jesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews), the text below this is the Hebrew version of this, while the version at the bottom is the Romanized version of the Hebrew. From Pfefferkorn, Der Juden Feind, 1509, reproduced in Georg Liebe, Das Judentum in der deutschen Vergangenheit, 1903.