Joshua ben Levi

Title page from Rachlin, I. (1906). Bar Levoi. New York: A. H. Rosenberg.

Joshua ben Levi (Yehoshua ben Levi) was an amora, a scholar of the Talmud, who lived in the Land of Israel in the first half of the third century. He lived and taught in the city of Lod.[1] He was an elder contemporary of Johanan bar Nappaha and Resh Lakish, who presided over the school in Tiberias.[2] With Johanan bar Nappaha, he often engaged in homiletic exegetical discussions.[3]