St. Elizabeth

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Pellegrino Tibaldi: Visitation (Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth in the Presence of Saints Joseph and Jerome)

Nicholas Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps

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Notable Family Members	son St. John the Baptist

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Jacopo de' Barbari: Holy Family

Pellegrino Tibaldi: Visitation (Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth in the Presence of Saints Joseph and Jerome)

Nicholas Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps

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Judah ha-Levi

Hebrew poet

Theodore Bikel

Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist

Lazarus

New Testament parable figure

Saint Joachim

father of Virgin Mary

Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)

St. Paul the Apostle

Christian Apostle

Moses and the Ten Commandments

Moses

Hebrew prophet

Isaiah

Isaiah

Hebrew prophet

Martin Buber

Martin Buber

German religious philosopher

József Molnár: The March of Abraham

Abraham

Hebrew patriarch

Philo Judaeus

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Rembrandt: Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem

Jeremiah

Hebrew prophet

Ernest Renan

French scholar

Aaron, detail of a 3rd-century fresco from the synagogue at Doura-Europus, Syria; in the National Museum, Damascus

Aaron

biblical figure

Josephus before Vespasian

Flavius Josephus

Jewish priest, scholar, and historian

Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness

St. John the Baptist

Jewish prophet and Christian saint

Moses Maimonides

Moses Maimonides

Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

Samuel

Samuel

Hebrew prophet

Franz Rosenzweig

German philosopher

Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher