- male
- Rabbi Nathan was a Palestinian tanna of the third generation (2nd century), the son of a Babylonian exilarch. For unknown reasons he left...
- 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
- Urukagina, alternately rendered as Uruinimgina, was a ruler ("énsi") of Lagash in Mesopotamia about the 24th century BC. His wife was probably Q...
- male
- William W. Hallo is an emeritus professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale. He also used to be curator of the Babylonian collection...
- male
- Ykhanya (meaning "God will fortify (his people)", "see Theophory in the Bible"; Greek: ιεχονιας, ; trad. English: "Jeconiah, Coniah, Jechonia...
- male
- Sheshet was a Babylonian amora of the third generation and colleague of R. Naḥman bar Jacob, with whom he had frequent arguments concerning qu...
- male, deceased (175)
- Vettius Valens (February 8, 120 - c. 175 CE) was a second-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy....
- 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
- Sudines (fl. c. 240 BC): Babylonian sage. He is mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians or astrologers by later Roman writers like...
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