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Died c.166 BCE
House / Dynasty Maccabees
Notable Family Members son Judas Maccabeus • son Jonathan Maccabeus
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Judas Maccabeus
Jewish leader
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Jonathan Maccabeus
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Amos
Amos
Hebrew prophet
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John Hyrcanus II
king of Judaea
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John Hyrcanus I
king of Judaea
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata
Mexican revolutionary
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Abimael Guzmán
Peruvian revolutionary
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Edén Pastora
Nicaraguan revolutionary
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Bar Kokhba
Jewish leader
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Josephus before Vespasian
Flavius Josephus
Jewish priest, scholar, and historian
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Judah ha-Levi
Hebrew poet
Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness
St. John the Baptist
Jewish prophet and Christian saint
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Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
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Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
Oil painting by Valerie Wiffen of Sir Sigmund Sternberg, showing him in a blue suit, orange scarf, and patterned tie, seated with a plant in the background.
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
British philanthropist and entrepreneur
False messiah: Shabbetai Tzevi
Shabbetai Tzevi
Jewish pseudo-messiah
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Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
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Simon Markovich Dubnow
Russian historian