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Also Known As Aḥer
Flourished c.100 -
Anan ben David
Jewish religious leader
Lazarus
New Testament parable figure
Saint Joachim
father of Virgin Mary
Theodore Bikel
Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Moses and the Ten Commandments
Moses
Hebrew prophet
Isaiah
Isaiah
Hebrew prophet
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
József Molnár: The March of Abraham
Abraham
Hebrew patriarch
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Rembrandt: Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
Jeremiah
Hebrew prophet
Jan Hus
Jan Hus
Bohemian religious leader
Ernest Renan
French scholar
Aaron, detail of a 3rd-century fresco from the synagogue at Doura-Europus, Syria; in the National Museum, Damascus
Aaron
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Josephus before Vespasian
Flavius Josephus
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John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness
St. John the Baptist
Jewish prophet and Christian saint
Judah ha-Levi
Hebrew poet
William of Ockham
English philosopher
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician