- male
- Makhir of Narbonne was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar who settled in Narbonne, France, at the end of the eighth century and whose descendants were for...
- male
- Dodai ben Nahman was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar of the eighth century CE and gaon of the Talmudic academy at Pumbedita (761-764). Little is known...
- 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...
- male
- Demetrius I (r. 162 BC - 150 BC), surnamed Soter, was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. He had been sent to Rome as a hostage during the...
- male, deceased (1640)
- Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...
- male
- Shmuel Hakatan (literally "Shmuel" the Small) was a Babylonian Jew considered a great scholar of the Talmud, Jewish law and custom. He was one of...
- male
- Hanina bar Hama (Hebrew: חנינא בר חמא) was a Jewish Talmudist, halakist and haggadist frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Jerusalem...
- male
- Nathan ben Isaac ha-Kohen ha-Babli was a Babylonian historian of the 10th century. He was the author of a history of the exilarchate that gives...
- male
- Abraham ben Jacob Cansino was a seventeenth century Spanish-Jewish poet. He is the author of "Aguddat Ezob" (A Bunch of Hyssop), a collection of...
- male
- 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...
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