Epes the Southerner
Epes the Southerner, or Rabbi Epes, was a scholar of the 3rd century, secretary to the patriarch Judah ha-Nasi, and one of the last tannaim. After Judah's death, while Efes conducted a college in southern Judea, on account of which he was called "'Efes the Southerner", he was made head of the academy at Sepphoris, although the dying patriarch had ordered the appointment of Hanina bar Hama to that position. Hanina refused to supersede Efes, who was his senior by two years and a half.
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