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3 unusual facts about Seder Olam Zutta


Seder Olam Zutta

Zunz observed that the sentence quoted by R. Baruch and Moses of Coucy with regard to the year 804 C.E. (see above) might be the author's colophon—omitted by the copyist—showing the time of composition.

This induced many modern scholars, as H. Grätz, Steinschneider, and Zunz, to identify the "Seder 'Olam Zuṭa" with the "Seder 'Olam de Rabbanan Sabura'e."

Zutta

Seder Olam Zutta, anonymous chronicle, called "Zuṭa" to distinguish it from the older Seder 'Olam Rabbah



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