Rav Ashi

Rav Ashi

male, deceased (427)
Rav Ashi ("Rabbi Ashi") (352-427) was a celebrated Jewish religious scholar, a Babylonian amora, who reestablished the academy at Sura and was...
Abaye

Abaye

male, deceased (339)
Abaye was a Rabbi of the Jewish Talmud who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora; born about the close of the third century; died 339 (see Talmudic...

Hoshaiah Rabbah

male
Hoshaiah Rabbah or Hoshayya Rabbah was Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation (about 200 C.E.), compiler of baraitot explaining the...

Tanhuma Bar Abba

male
Tanhuma bar Abba was a Palestinian amora of the 5th generation, one of the foremost haggadists of his time. He was a pupil of Ḥuna bar Abin (Num. R....

Rabbi Helbo

male
Rabbi Helbo was an amora who flourished about the end of the 3rd century, and who is frequently mentioned in both Talmuds. It seems that Ḥelbo wa...
Jose ben Akabya

Jose ben Akabya

male
Jose ben Aqabya (Heb. Yose ben Aqabya or Yose ben Yakov; Aram. Issi bar Akiba) was a rabbi and Tanna whose career spanned the early third century...

Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen

male, 330 years old
Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen (born at Hanau, Prussia, October 26 1679; died about 1750) was a German Christian printer of Hebrew books and Orientalist....

Abraham Lewysohn

male, deceased (1860)
Abraham Lewysohn was a Hebraist and rabbi of Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia. He was born on December 6, 1805 and died on February 14, 1860. He left a...

Moses Of Kiev

male
Moses of Kiev was a Russian-Jewish Talmudist who lived in the first half of the twelfth century. Moses seems to have been in western Europe in...

Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils

male
Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils was a French rabbi, Talmudist, Bible commentator, and "payyeṭan". Of his life nothing is known but that he came from Na...