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Flourished c.50 - c.149
Notable Works Talmud
Subjects Of Study Halakhah
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Judah ha-Nasi
Jewish scholar
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Ishmael ben Elisha
Jewish scholar
Lag BaOmer
Shimon bar Yochai
Jewish scholar
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Meïr
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
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Hillel
Jewish scholar
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Johanan ben Zakkai
Jewish scholar
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Gamaliel I
Jewish scholar
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
The prophet Isaiah
Isaiah
Hebrew prophet
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Painting by Rembrandt van Rijn showing Jeremiah sitting in a dimly lit cave, head resting on his hand in sorrow, with Jerusalem burning in the background.
Jeremiah
Hebrew prophet
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Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
Akiva ben Yosef
Akiva ben Yosef
Jewish sage and rabbinic founder
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Eusebius of Caesarea
Christian bishop and historian
Relief sculpture of Ezekiel in profile, with a long beard and robe, carved in a cracked, reddish-brown surface.
Ezekiel
Hebrew prophet
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
Amos
Amos
Hebrew prophet
Depiction of St. Matthew
St. Matthew
apostle
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Joseph Herman Hertz
British rabbi