Late Antique Historiography

Seder olam zuta

Title(s):
  • Seder olam zuta
  • סדר עולמ זוטא
    (sēder ‘ōlam zūṭā, The small ordering of the world)
Author:
Period covered:
Creation-Rab Ḥaẓub, son of Rab Phinehas (10th c.)
Language:
Hebrew
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Sacred history
Remarks:
The time of composition is still debated. The part on the exiliarchs after Mar Zutra III (sixth century), whose journey from Babylonia to Israel is mentioned in the work (520), is probably a later addition.The original composition may therefore be dated to the sixth century (Rosenthal 2007: 236).
Edition - Translation:
  • M. Grossberg (1923) Seder Olam Zuta. London.
  • M.J. Weinstock (1957) Seder Olam Zuta ha-Shalem. Jerusalem.
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Bibliography:
  • A.D. Goode (1940) 'The exilarchate in the eastern'. The Jewish Quarterly Review 31: 149-169, esp. 149.
  • J.M. Rosenthal (2007) 'Seder Olam Zuta'. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica. Volume Eighteen, ed. M. Berenbaum - F. Skolnik. Second edition. Detroit: 236.