Antigonus of Sokho (Hebrew: אנטיגנוס איש סוכו) was one of the first scholar of whom Jewish tradition has preserved not only the name but also an important...

kings of the Antigonid dynasty that succeeded Alexander the Great: Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382–301 BC) Antigonus II Gonatas (319–239 BC) Antigonus III...

Rabbi Antigonus of Sokho, mentioned in Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot 1:3), likely came from the Hebron-region town. Rabbi Levi Sukia, of the first...

(proto-Rabbinical) orthodoxy against the Samaritans. Antigonus of Sokho, also known as Antigonos of Socho, was the first scholar of whom Pharisaic tradition has preserved...

descendants of Eleazar, son of Aaron). The aggadic work Avot of Rabbi Natan tells the story of the two disciples of Antigonus of Sokho (3rd century BCE)...

Zadok and Boethus, both being students of Antigonus of Sokho (roughly 3rd century BCE). A Rabbi Zadok, one of the tannaim, is mentioned as saved in Talmud...

Sadducees/Boethusians: Antigonus of Sokho having taught the maxim, "Be not like the servants who serve their masters for the sake of the wages, but be rather...

like Boethus, was a student of Antigonus of Sokho during the second century BCE. The idea of a literal fulfillment of Ezekiel's Third Temple in Jerusalem...

Great Assembly, and Antigonus of Sokho received the Torah from him. The first part of this statement is paraphrased as follows in Avot of Rabbi Natan: Haggai...

and Simeon then partook of the sin-offering which he brought. According to the Mishnah, Antigonus of Sokho was a disciple of Simeon. During Simeon's administration...

popular among Jews throughout most of the Second Temple period. Some Pharisees, too, had Greek names like Antigonus of Sokho or P[t]ollion. In classical antiquity...

successors and, it is said, the disciples of Antigonus of Sokho, and the two together formed the first of a series of duumvirates that transmitted the traditional...

appearance until the time of the Second Temple. In opposition to them, Zadok, a disciple of Antigonus of Sokho and founder of a sect (either the Sadducees...