Joshua ben Levi

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Joshua ben Levi (Yehoshua ben Levi) was an amora—a scholar of Jewish law during the period in which the Gemara was codified—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 ben Nappaha and Resh Lakish, who presided over the academy in Tiberias.^[2] With Johanan bar Nappaha, he often engaged in homiletic exegetical discussions.^[3]