Seder Olam Rabba

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Seder Olam Rabba (סדר עולם רבה), originally just Seder Olam , "the great world chronicle", is an old Jewish chronicle written in Hebrew, traditionally attributed to Jose ben Chalafta , which mostly adheres closely to the biblical chronology and already in the Talmud is quoted.

Characteristic

Edited after 200 and later expanded many times over, it describes in 27 or 30 chapters the most important events from the creation of the world to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar , the Persian period and the most important events between Alexander the Great and Bar Kochba .

Seder Olam Rabba, whose actual author is unknown, is considered to be the first post-biblical Hebrew script to gain general recognition. It was widely read, studied, commented on and also translated into Latin.

The counting of the years since the creation of the world, which has become common practice among Jews, is based on the Seder Olam Rabba.

expenditure

text

  • First printing Mantua 1513
  • B. Ratner (ed.): Seder Olam Rabba. The great world chronicle. Vilnius 1897, reprint Jerusalem 1988
  • Ch. J. Milikowsky (ed.): Seder Olam. A Rabbinic Chronography. Diss., Yale 1981

Translations

  • Luis Fernando Girón Blanc: Seder `Olam Rabbah. El Gran Orden del Universo: una cronología judía (Biblioteca Midrásica 18). Estella, Navarra 1996. ISBN 84-8169-115-1
  • Heinrich W. Guggenheimer: Seder Olam: the Rabbinic View of Biblical Chronology. Northvale / NJ 1998. ISBN 0-7657-6021-5

Literature (selection)

  • Alexander Marx, Seder 'Olam. (Cap. 1 - 10). Edited, translated and explained from manuscripts and printed works . 1903, (Königsberg, Univ., Diss., 1903).
  • Ismar Elbogen : Article Seder Olam. In: Jewish Lexicon IV / 2. Berlin 1927.
  • Günter Stemberger : Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash . 8th revised edition. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36695-3 , ( Beck-Studium ), pp. 319-320.

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