Johanan ben Zakkai: Quick Facts

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Flourished	c.1 - c.100
Subjects Of Study	Halakhah • Judaism

Gamaliel I

Jewish scholar

Akiva ben Yosef

Jewish sage and rabbinic founder

Judah ha-Nasi

Jewish scholar

Shimon bar Yochai

Jewish scholar

Meïr

Jewish rabbi and scholar

Eleazar ben Azariah

rabbinic scholar

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi

Jewish scholar

Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna

European scholar

Louis Ginzberg

Lithuanian-American scholar

Saint Joachim

father of Virgin Mary

Flavius Josephus

Jewish priest, scholar, and historian

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

Hillel

Jewish scholar

St. Anne

mother of Virgin Mary

Ishmael ben Elisha

Jewish scholar

Abraham Isaac Kook

chief rabbi of Palestine

Gamaliel II

Jewish scholar

Abraham ben David Halevi ibn Daud

Jewish physician and historian

Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital

Jewish Kabbalist