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Benedict de Spinoza

Dutch-Jewish philosopher

Origen

Christian theologian

Martin Buber

Martin Buber

German religious philosopher

Philo Judaeus

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish philosopher

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St. Jerome

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Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher

Joachim Of Fiore

Italian theologian

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Cornelius Otto Jansen

Flemish theologian

St. Ambrose

St. Ambrose

bishop of Milan

Rudolf Bultmann

German theologian

St. John Chrysostom

St. John Chrysostom

archbishop of Constantinople

Hillel

Jewish scholar

Eusebius of Caesarea

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Rashi

French religious scholar

Saint Ephraem Syrus

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Theodoret Of Cyrrhus

Syrian theologian

Theodore Of Mopsuestia

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