Hillel The Elder

Hillel The Elder

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Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious leader who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod, Augustus, and probably Jesus; he is one of...
Antiochus Vii Sidetes

Antiochus Vii Sidetes

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Antiochus VII Euergetes, nicknamed Sidetes (from Sidon), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 138 to 129 BC. He was the last...
Rav Huna

Rav Huna

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Rav Huna was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the second generation and head of the Academy of Sura; He was born...
Philetaerus

Philetaerus

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Philetaerus was the founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon in Anatolia. He was born in Tieum, a small town on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia...

Kadashman-Enlil I

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Kadashman-Enlil I was a Kassite King of Babylon in the 14th century BC. He is known to have been a contemporary of Amenhotep III of Egypt, to whom...

Amenemope

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Amenemope (ca. 1100 BCE) was a "wise man" who lived in Egypt during the late 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. He resided in Akhim, which was...

Rav Nachman

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Rav Nachman (d. 320) (Hebrew: רב נחמן בר יעקב) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the third generation,...

Edwin Norris

male, deceased (1872)
Edwin Norris (October 24, 1795 - 1872) was an English philologist, linguist and intrepid orientalist who authored numerous works on languages of...

Rava

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Rava (רבא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora, born in 270, and one of the most often-cited Rabbis in the Talmud. He...
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...