Anonymous. SEDER OLAM RABA VESEDER OLAM ZUTA [Two Midrashic chronologies]. With Megilath Ta’anith and Sepher Hakaballah, etc. by Abraham b. David of Posquieres (RAVa”D)
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Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 185
(MIDRASH).
Anonymous. SEDER OLAM RABA VESEDER OLAM ZUTA [Two Midrashic chronologies]. With Megilath Ta’anith and Sepher Hakaballah, etc. by Abraham b. David of Posquieres (RAVa”D)
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Attributed to Yose b. Chalaphta, the Seder Olam Raba is mentioned in the Talmud. It was the first text to establish the era “from the Creation of the World” or, Anno Mundi. Alexander Marx attempted a critical edition (unfinished) of the book, with a German translation, in 1903. The Megilath Ta’anith is of Tannaitic origin and is particularly useful as an historical parallel to the facts presented by Josephus. The Seder Olam Zuta probably dates to the early medieval period. Abraham Zacuto included large portions of it in his Sepher Yuchasin. A scholarly edition of the Seder Olam Zuta has yet to appear