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Date: 1150 C.E.
The Chronicles of Jerahmeel is a Hebrew collection of stories and texts covering a period of time between the creation of the earth and the death of Judas Maccabeus in 160 BCE. This voluminous work draws largely on Pseudo-Philo's earlier history of Biblical events and is of special interest because it includes Hebrew and Aramaic versions of certain deuterocanonical books in the Septuagint. The Chronicles were published in English as The Chronicles of Jerahmeel Or, the Hebrew Bible Historiale by the Royal Asiatic Society, translated by Moses Gaster, 1899. Gaster stated in his extensive preface his view that the Chronicles were compiled from several Hebrew sources, some quite ancient and others more recent.
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