Gamaliel I: Quick Facts

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Judah ha-Nasi

Jewish scholar

Johanan ben Zakkai

Jewish scholar

Gamaliel II

Jewish scholar

Shimon bar Yochai

Jewish scholar

Meïr

Jewish rabbi and scholar

Eleazar ben Azariah

rabbinic scholar

Gamaliel III

Jewish scholar

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Akiva ben Yosef

Jewish sage and rabbinic founder

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi

Jewish scholar

Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna

European scholar

Louis Ginzberg

Lithuanian-American scholar

Saint Joachim

father of Virgin Mary

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

St. Anne

mother of Virgin Mary

Ishmael ben Elisha

Jewish scholar

Abraham Isaac Kook

chief rabbi of Palestine

Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital

Jewish Kabbalist

Ezekiel Landau

Polish rabbi

Lazarus

New Testament parable figure