# Hillel the Elder

- Id: `hillel`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/hillel/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `3ddd87cec50baa9b32638b7c2594cdfab39de7e33f782857e7ada1e06e4a565f`

## Summary

A Jewish sage active around the turn of the era, Hillel is remembered for patient interpretation, humility, and demanding ethical maxims.

## Overview

Hillel was active around the turn of the era. Even the limits of his lifetime are reconstructed from later rabbinic tradition.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "id": "judaism",
    "name": "Judaism",
    "detail": "Jewish ethical / rabbinic voice",
    "labels": [
        "Judaism",
        "Jewish ethical",
        "rabbinic voice"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 97,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "he"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 3
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "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"
    }
]
```