- Avtalyon
- (fl. 1st cent BCE)Palestinian scholar. He and Shemaiah constituted the fourth of the zugot in Palestine. He served as av bet din of the Sanhedrin.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Avtalyon
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