This is the Hebrew title of the most famous Jewish work on chronology, and signifies “The Great Chronicle of the World.” Dr. Hales says, “This was the first curtailed system of Jewish chronology, fabricated by Rabbi _Josi_, under the auspices of Rabbi _Akiba_, the abettor of the rebel-impostor _Barchochab_, A.D. 130, in the reign of Adrian.”—See his “Analysis,” p. 13. Footnote 26: “I have endeavoured to shew,” says Mr. Cuninghame, in the former of the places cited, “that the periods of 390 and 40 mystic _days_, during which Ezekiel was commanded to lie on his sides, bearing the iniquity of Judah and Israel, are a period of 430 _years_, computed from the finishing of the Temple, B.C. 1020, to the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem, B.C. 590. But it now appears to me that the 430 years may with equal probability be computed from the first Passover in the Temple. The dedication was in the month Tisri of B.C. 1019, which is exactly 91 jubilees from the creation; the first Passover was therefore in Nisan B.C. 1018, whence to the taking of the city in Ab B.C. 588, are 430 years and three months; and computing back from B.C. 588, the second period of 40 years, it brings us to B.C. 628, the 13th of Josiah, and the very year, according to Prideaux, of the commission of Jeremiah. * * * Whether, therefore, we compute the period of 430 years from the finishing of the Temple B.C. 1020, to the _beginning of the siege_ B.C. 590, or as above, from the first Passover to the _taking of the city_, it comes out with equal exactness.” Footnote 27: See a full account of this Canon, in Dr. Hales’ “Analysis,” vol. i. pp. 275–288; and a short account of it, in the “Breviarium Chronologicum” of Strauchius, translated by Sault, pp. 262–264, 3rd edition, Lond. 1745. Footnote 28: See his “Chart of Sacred Chronology.” Footnote 29: See his “Apology, &c.,” translated by the Rev. T. Chevallier, B.D., p. 221, Cambridge, 1833. Footnote 30: