Akiba ben Joseph
50 – 135
Israelite

Rabbi and Jewish teacher in Palestine. After the Romans erected a pagan temple in Jerusalem, he joined with Bar Kokhba leading a fiery revolt, but was killed.

Contemporaries
?–135Simon bar Kokhba
39–81Titus
fl. 50St. Thomas
75–160Suetonius
fl. 50St. Stephen
fl. c. 50 BCE–c. 50Shammai
5 BCE–65Lucius Seneca
fl. 50Salome
35–100Quintilian
fl. c. 127–c. 145Ptolemy
62–114Pliny
fl. 50Pontius Pilate
fl. 50Phaedrus
fl. 50St. Peter
fl. c. 10–c. 67St. Paul
32–98Marcus Nerva
37–68Nero
?–63Mary
40–104Martial
fl. 50St. Mark
100–165Marcion
fl. 50Simon Magus
fl. 50St. Luke
55–130Juvenal
fl. 50St. John the Baptist
fl. 50St. John
fl. 50Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai
fl. 50Judas Iscariot
130–200St. Irenaeus
fl. c. 50 BCE–c. 50Hillel
78–139Zhang Heng
?–50Gamaliel
fl. c. 130–c. 180Gaius
50–130Epictetus
fl. 50Caiaphas
fl. 50Boudicca
fl. 50Petronius Arbiter
3–97Apollonius of Tyana
15–59Agrippina