(Encyclopedia) Johanan ben ZakkaiJohanan ben Zakkaijōhănˈən bĕn zăkˈāī [key], leader of the Pharisees of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Temple in a.d. 70, afterward founder of the Jewish…
(Encyclopedia) Anan ben DavidAnan ben Davidänänˈ [key], fl. 8th cent., Babylonian Jewish theologian, founder of the Ananites from whom the Karaites claim spiritual descent. He is said to have been a…
(Encyclopedia) Gershom ben JudahGershom ben Judahgrˈshəm bĕn j&oomacr;ˈdə [key], c.965–c.1040?, rabbi, religious poet, and scholar. He was also called Me'or ha-Golah [light of the exile]. He…
(Encyclopedia) Amram ben ScheschnaAmram ben Scheschnaămˈrăm, [key]Amram ben Scheschnashĕshˈnä [key] or Amram GaonAmram Gaongäˈōn [key], d. c.875, Hebrew scholar, head of the Jewish academy at Sura…
(Encyclopedia) Immanuel ben Solomon, c.1265–c.1330, Hebrew-Italian poet and scholar, b. Rome. He wrote biblical criticism and, in both Hebrew and Italian, satiric verse and lively stories. His work…
(Encyclopedia) Dunash ben LabratDunash ben Labratd&oomacr;ˈnäsh bĕn läˈbrät [key], 920–90, Hebrew grammarian and poet, b. Fès. He was also called Rabbi Adonim Halevy (ha-Levi). He wrote an…
(Encyclopedia) Dunash ben TamimDunash ben Tamimd&oomacr;ˈnäsh bĕn [key]Dunash ben Tamimtäˈmēm [key] or Dunash ibn Tamim, c.900–c.960, Hebrew scholar, an astronomer and physician of North Africa…
(Encyclopedia) Akiba ben JosephAkiba ben Josephəkēˈbə [key], c.a.d. 50–c.a.d. 135, Jewish Palestinian religious leader, one of the founders of rabbinic Judaism. Although the facts of his life are…
(Encyclopedia) Elijah ben Solomon, 1720–97, Jewish scholar, called the Gaon of Vilna, b. Lithuania. A leading Jewish scholar of his time, he opposed the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania and Poland…
