Judah ha-Nasi: Quick Facts

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Gamaliel I

Jewish scholar

Shimon bar Yochai

Jewish scholar

Meïr

Jewish rabbi and scholar

Eleazar ben Azariah

rabbinic scholar

Gamaliel III

Jewish scholar

Johanan ben Zakkai

Jewish scholar

Ishmael ben Elisha

Jewish scholar

Gamaliel II

Jewish scholar

Tao Hongjing

Chinese Daoist

Daigak Guksa

Buddhist priest

al-Tirmidhī

Muslim scholar

Lu Hsiu-ching

Chinese Daoist

’Brom-ston

Tibetan Buddhist monk

St. Paul the Apostle

Christian Apostle

Isaiah

Hebrew prophet

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Jeremiah

Hebrew prophet

Akiva ben Yosef

Jewish sage and rabbinic founder

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet

Hillel

Jewish scholar