HILLEL II., one of the patriarchs belonging to the family of Hillel I., lived in Tiberias about the middle of the 4th century, and introduced the arrangement of the calendar through which the Jews of the Diaspora became independent of Palestine in the uniform fixation of the new moons and feasts.
The Rabbi HILLEL, who in the 4th century made the remark able declaration that Israel need not expect a Messiah, because the promise of a Messiah had already been fulfilled in the days of King Hezekiah (Babli, Sanhedrin, 99a), is probably Hillel, the son of Samuel ben Nabman, a well-known expounder of the scriptures.
See Taylor, Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (1877) ; F. Delitzsch, Jesus and Hillel (3rd ed. 1879) ; Scharer, The Jewish People in the Time of Christ (1891) ; Gratz, Hist. of the Jews (1894) ; Herzog's Realencyklopddie and Jewish Encyclopedia.