Shammai the elder
49 BC–30
Jewish scholar and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah (50 BCE-30 CE)
rabbi
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Shammai the elder:
- Jesus Christ (5 BC–30)
- Augustus (62 BC–14)
- Virgil (69 BC–18 BC)
- Ovid (42 BC–17)
- Paul the Apostle (5–66)
- Cleopatra (68 BC–29 BC)
- Horace (64 BC–7 BC)
- Seneca (4 BC–65)