Shammai the elder
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Mausoleum with two Loculus (architecture)|loculus graves at [[Khirbet Shema' on Mount Meron, dated to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods, and identified by a medieval tradition as the tomb of Shammai.]]
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- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Tannaim
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- rabbi
- Religion
- Judaism
- Student of
- Shmaya
- Image
- PikiWiki Israel 42189 Shamais tomb in Mt. Meron.jpg
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- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- date of birth
- 0050-01-01
- date of death
- 0030-00-00
- significant person
- Hillel the Elder
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thumb|300px|Mausoleum with two Loculus (architecture)|loculus graves at [[Khirbet Shema' on Mount Meron, dated to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods, and identified by a medieval tradition as the tomb of Shammai.]]
Shammai (c. 50 BCE – c. 30 CE, , Šammaʾy) also known as Shammai the Elder (שַׁמַּאי הַזָּקֵן) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah. Shammai was the most eminent contemporary of the sage and scholar Hillel.
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