Numbers Rabbah - Approximate Date

Approximate Date

This portion of the Numbers Rabbah shows all the marks of the late haggadic age. There is much which can be referred to Rabbi Moses ha-Darshan (11th Century), and which reveals a connection with Midrash Tadshe. The work is, according to Zunz, hardly older than the 12th Century. The The Encyclopaedia Judaica also dates it to the 12th Century.

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