This is Moses Gaster's translation of the Chronicles of Jerahmeel. The book is a collection of extended Biblical events, mixed with Roman history, lists of geographical names, and Patriarchial genealogies. Gaster believed that the Chronicles were compiled from Hebrew sources, both ancient and medieval.
About Author:
Moses Gaster (September 17, 1856 – March 5, 1939) was a Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist. He was also the son-in-law of Michael Friedländer, principal of Jews' College. The surname Gaster is taken from Spanish Castro, indicating his Sephardic origin. He was the father of Theodor Gaster.