Sunday, December 7, 2014

Talmud Bavli Pesachim on the Allure of the Book of Chronicles

"Rami bar Rav Yuda said in the name of Rav: From the day that the Book of Yochasin was hidden, the strength of the Sages became weak and their eyesight was dimmed. Mar Zutra said: The section in the Book of Chronicles between the first mention of Atzel and the last mention of Atzel holds four hundred camel-loads worth of exposition."

-- Talmud Bavli, Pesachim 62b

"The Book of Yochasin was a collection of Tannaitic expositions on the Biblical Book of Chronicles." 

-- Rashi


"And to Atzel were six sons." -- I Chronicles 8:38

"These are the sons of Atzel." -- I Chronicles 9:44

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