Field
Religion & Scholarship
24 figures, most prominent first.
Baruch Spinoza
philosopher of God and nature
1632 – 1677
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)
codified Jewish law
c. 1138 – 1204
Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki)
the commentator on every Torah page
c. 1040 – 1105
Philo of Alexandria
Hellenistic Jewish philosopher
c. 20 BCE – c. 50
Ernst Bloch
German philosopher
1885 – 1977
Abraham ibn Ezra
12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
c. 1089 – 1167
- SG
Saadia Gaon
rabbi, translator, Jewish philosopher and theologian acti
882 – 942
Judah Halevi
Spanish-Jewish philosopher, poet and physician
c. 1075 – c. 1141
Solomon ibn Gabirol
11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher
c. 1021 – c. 1058
Abraham Joshua Heschel
theologian; marched at Selma
1907 – 1972
Isaac Abarbanel
Portuguese-Spanish Jewish businessman
c. 1437 – 1508
Samson Raphael Hirsch
Jewish theologian, Germany 19th century
1808 – 1888
- AS
Adin Steinsaltz
Israeli rabbi and educator
1937 – 2020
Eleazar of Worms
German rabbi
c. 1176 – c. 1238
- GV
Géza Vermes
British scholar
1924 – 2013
- DK
David Kimhi
rabbi
c. 1160 – c. 1235
Will Herberg
American sociologist
1901 – 1977
Aryeh Kaplan
American rabbi and physicist
1934 – 1983
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
medieval Jewish physician and philosopher
c. 832 – c. 932
- JN
Jacob Neusner
American scholar of Judaism and Rabbinic literature
1932 – 2016
Mordecai Kaplan
Lithuanian American rabbi
1881 – 1983
- SS
Solomon Schechter
Moldavian-born American rabbi and scholar
1847 – 1915
- Ji
Jonah ibn Janah
Spanish rabbi and lexicographer
c. 990 – c. 1050
- AM
Abraham Maimonides
Egyptian rabbi
c. 1186 – 1237