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    "id": "hillel",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/hillel/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Hillel the Elder",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "A Jewish sage active around the turn of the era, Hillel is remembered for patient interpretation, humility, and demanding ethical maxims.",
    "body": "Hillel was active around the turn of the era. Even the limits of his lifetime are reconstructed from later rabbinic tradition.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 1st c. BCE–1st c. CE",
        "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
        "distance": "about 1,976–2,075 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "judaism",
        "name": "Judaism",
        "detail": "Jewish ethical / rabbinic voice",
        "labels": [
            "Judaism",
            "Jewish ethical",
            "rabbinic voice"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": 20,
        "display": "20 CE",
        "reason": "Hillel was active around the turn of the era. Even the limits of his lifetime are reconstructed from later rabbinic tradition."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 1,
        "passages": 97,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "he"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 3
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Babylonia",
            "period": "traditional early life",
            "description": "Rabbinic tradition presents Hillel as coming from Babylonia.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hillel"
        },
        {
            "name": "Jerusalem",
            "period": "adult life",
            "description": "Center of study, teaching and leadership tradition.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hillel"
        }
    ],
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}