high priest of the 2nd century BCE (born 164 BCE, reigned from 134 BCE until his death in 104 BCE). Roman era (c. 1st century BC – 4th century AD) John Hyrcanus II (1st century BCE), a member of the Hasmonean dynasty, High Priest, King, and ethnarch of Judea. John the Baptist (late 1st century BC – c. AD 30), a Jewish itinerant preacher and later Christian saint. John of Giscala, 1st century CE leader of the Jewish revolt against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War. Jehohanan, a man put to death by crucifixion in the 1st century CE, whose ossuary was found in 1968 in northern East Jerusalem John the Apostle, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and possible author of the Johannine works. Other possible authors of the Johannine works: John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, John the Presbyter. Rabbinic sages Johanan ben Bag-Bag, one of the tannaim (rabbinic sages), who is mentioned several times in the Talmud. Johanan ben Baroka, second and third generation Jewish Tanna sage (2nd century). Johanan ben Torta, rabbi of the early 2nd century (third generation of tannaim). Johanan HaSandlar (c. 200–c. 300), one of the tannaim, whose teachings are quoted in the core text of Rabbinical Judaism, the Mishnah Johanan bar Nappaha (died c. 279), a rabbi in the early era of the Talmud, better known simply as "Rabbi Yohanan" Johanan ben Nuri, one of the tannaim of the 1st and 2nd centuries, frequently cited in the Mishnah Johanan ben Zakai (c. 30–90), one of the tannaim, widely regarded as one of the most important Jewish figures in the era of the Second Temple and a primary contributor to the Mishnah Middle ages (4th century – 15th century) Yohanan, ancestor of the Banu Qaynuqa. Johanan Luria, fifteenth century talmudist. Modern period Yochanan Afek (born 1952), Israeli chess player Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976), Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer Yohanan Alemanno (c. 1435–after 1504), Italian Jewish humanist philosopher and exegete Yohanan Bader (1901–1994), Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician Yohanan Cohen (1917–2013), Israeli former politician and diplomat Yohanan Danino (born 1959), chief of the Israel Police Yohanan Friedmann (born 1936), Israeli scholar of Islamic studies Yohanan Levi (1901–1945), Hebrew linguist and historian Yohanan Moyal (born 1965), Israeli Olympic gymnast Yochanan Muffs (1932–2009), American–Jewish professor of the Bible and religion Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born 1962), American historian, philologist and essayist Yohanan Plesner (born 1972), Israeli