Late Antique Historiography

Ordering of the world

Title(s):
  • Ordering of the world
  • סדך עולם
    (sēder ‘ōlām, The order of the world)
Author:
Period covered:
Creation-132 (Revolt of Simon Bar Kokhba)
Language:
Hebrew
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Form (excerpt collection)
  • Sacred history
Remarks:
Even though the tradition ascribes the composition of the Seder Olam to Rabbi Yose ben Halafta, he probably reworked an already existing work (Milikowsky 2006: 233-234) .
Edition - Translation:
  • D.B. Ratner (1897) Seder Olam Rabba: Die Grosse Weltchronik, nach Handschriften und Druckwerken, mit kritischen Noten und Erklärung. Vilnius.
  • C. Milikowski (2013) Seder 'Olam: Mahadūrah mada'it perūš wmabō. סדר עלם: מהדורה מדעית פרוש ואמביו. Jerusalem.
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Bibliography:
  • E. Ben-Eliyahu, L. Cohn, F. Millar (2012) Handbook of Jewish literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 CE. Oxford: 140-141.
  • C. Milikowski (2006) 'Seder Olam'. In: Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. Section Two: The literature of the Jewish people in the period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, ed. S. Safrai. Assen: 231-237.
  • J.M. Rosenthal (2007) 'Seder Olam'. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica. Volume Eighteen, ed. M. Berenbaum - F. Skolnik. Second edition. Detroit: 235-236.
  • H.L. Strack, G. Stemberger, M. Bockmuehl (1996) Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Edinburgh.