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Also Known As David Abū Sulaymān ibn Marwān ar-Raqqī al-Mukammas • David ha-Bavli
Flourished 900 - • Syria
Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Gennadios II Scholarios
patriarch of Constantinople
Nicole, detail of an engraving by Cornelius Vermeulen after a painting by Elisabeth Cheron
Pierre Nicole
French theologian
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Ernest Renan
French scholar
Judah ha-Levi
Hebrew poet
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
Mendelssohn, Moses
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and scholar
Emmanuel Lévinas
French philosopher
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
German nun
Saint Ephraem Syrus
Christian theologian
Isaac ben Solomon Israeli
Jewish physician and philosopher
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Maimon, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt
Salomon Maimon
Jewish philosopher
Levi ben Gershom
French scholar
Profiat Duran
Spanish philosopher

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