# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rabbi-akiva
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:20:23.915Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Akiva ben Joseph was born around 50 CE and spent his early decades as an illiterate shepherd before beginning his education at forty. He rose to become a leading scholar and sage, a tanna whose contributions shaped the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha. Known in rabbinic texts as Rosh la-Hakhamim — "Chief of the Sages" — he built the interpretive framework that would anchor Jewish legal thought for centuries. His support for the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome proved fatal: the Romans executed him on 28 September 135 CE. The method was designed to break him; the tradition holds it didn't.