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Flourished c.1 - c.100
Subjects Of Study Halakhah • Judaism
Akiva ben Yosef
Akiva ben Yosef
Jewish sage and rabbinic founder
Judah ha-Nasi
Jewish scholar
Gamaliel I
Jewish scholar
Lag ba-ʿOmer
Shimon bar Yochai
Jewish scholar
Meïr
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Eleazar ben Azariah
rabbinic scholar
Philo Judaeus
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
Josephus before Vespasian
Flavius Josephus
Jewish priest, scholar, and historian
Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
Hillel
Jewish scholar
Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child
St. Anne
mother of Virgin Mary
Ishmael ben Elisha
Jewish scholar
Abraham Isaac Kook
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