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Born May 24, 1810 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died October 23, 1874 (aged 64) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study Hebrew Bible • Reform Judaism • biblical translation
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Baeck, Leo
Leo Baeck
German theologian
Kaufmann Kohler
German-American rabbi and theologian
Walther Eichrodt
German biblical scholar
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
German theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Origen
Christian theologian
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
Maximus The Greek
Greek Orthodox monk and scholar
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
Nicholas Of Hereford
English scholar
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore
British theologian
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
St. Mesrop Mashtots
St. Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist
Theodotion
Jewish scholar