Seder Olam Raba VeSeder Olam Zuta - Sive Chronicon Hebraeorum Majus et Minus.

(MIDRASH).

Joannes Wolters

Amsterdam

1699

FIRST EDITION of translation into Latin by Johannes Meyer. With original Hebrew text. Title in red and black with engraved printer’s device.

Fine Hebrew-Latin edition of these two Midrashic chronologies by Jean Meyer (1652-1725), doctor of theology and professor of Oriental languages ​​at the University of Hardewijk in the Netherlands. The two treaties occupy the first 118 pages, followed by the prolegomena, three dissertations, important notes, comments and the index. The Hebrew text of Olam Raba is attributed to the Mishnaic sage R. Jose ben Chalaphta, and is mentioned in the Talmud. It was the first systematic chronology of world history from the Biblical Adam until the destruction of the Second Temple. The Seder Olam Zuta probably dates to the early medieval period. Abraham Zacuto included large portions of it in his Sepher Yuchasin.