Chronicles of Jerahmeel

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The Chronicles of Jerahmeel is a voluminous Jewish legendary history compiled in the Rhineland during the 14th century. It draws heavily from earlier works, including Pseudo-Philo's compilation, and incorporates Hebrew and Aramaic versions of certain books from the Apocrypha. This work is part of a broader tradition of medieval Jewish legendary histories and Haggadic compendiums that aimed to integrate Jewish history with world and classical traditions. These compendiums served to provide material for public disputations with Christian ecclesiastics.1

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There is also the voluminous Chronicles of Jerahmeel, written in the Rhineland in the 14th century, which draws largely on Pseudo-Philo’s earlier compilation and includes Hebrew and Aramaic versions of certain books of the Apocrypha.
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There is also the voluminous Chronicles of Jerahmeel, written in the Rhineland in the 14th century, which draws largely on Pseudo-Philo’s earlier compilation and includes Hebrew and Aramaic versions of certain books of the Apocrypha.
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