Jezdijird III, persecutes the Jews of Babylonia, [627] f.
Job, book of, view of Simon ben Lakish on, [497].
Jochanan bar Napacha, [492]–[5].
Jochanan ben Zakkai, [322]–[33].
abolishes the ritual of suspected adultery, [238].
abolishes the sin-offering for the shedding of innocent blood, [239].
becomes vice-president of the Synhedrion, [240].
burnt-offerings, his view on their value, [324].
character, [331].
combats the Sadducees, [323].
compared with Jeremiah and Zerubbabel, [333].
death, [333].
disciples, [326].
establishes the school of Jabne, [324] f.
heir of Hillel's mind, [323].
holds converse with pagans, [329].
joins the peace party, [323].
nine changes made by him, [326].
school, his, at Jerusalem, [323].
teachings, [326] ff.
why he sided with Rome, [329].
work, his, after the fall of Judæa, [322] ff.
John the Baptist, an Essene, [145] ff., [150].
beheaded by Herod Antipas, [147].
not hindered in his work by the Pharisees, [147].
John of Gischala, leader in the revolution, character, [273], [296] f.
death, [314].
conduct as general, [290], [304].
John, son of Zebedee, [169], [222].
Jonathan, leader of the Sadducees, [31], [33].
Jonathan, son of Uziel, [131].
José, principal of the school of Pumbeditha, completes the compilation of the Talmud, [630].