Sefer Seder HaDorot — Me’arat HaOtzarot — Chapter 54 - The Five-Thousand-Five-Hundred-Year Reckoning

Work ID: 6a9dc9da94d0c98b226118ab · Chapter ID: 6a9dc9dddda27ea8ec64aadc · Canonical title: Sefer Seder HaDorot — Me’arat HaOtzarot

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The received Cave tradition reckons the period from Adam toward the birth of the Anointed as five thousand five hundred years.

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This chronology is not the only ancient or medieval world-age system, but it is structurally important to this recension.

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The number also appears in related Eastern Adam literature.

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HaSefarim preserves it as the calculation of the witness rather than converting it into an independently verified chronology.

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