The Chronicles of Jerahmeel is a Hebrew collection of stories and texts covering a period of time between the creation of the earth and the death of Judas Maccabeus in 160 BCE.
[1] This voluminous work draws largely on Pseudo-Philo's earlier history of Biblical events and is of special interest because it includes Hebrew and Aramaic versions of certain deuterocanonical books in the Septuagint.
Gaster stated in his extensive preface his view (p. xx) that the Chronicles were compiled from several Hebrew sources, some quite ancient and others more recent.
[3] The actual compiler of the chronicles identifies himself as "Eleasar ben Asher the Levite" who, according to Gaster, lived in the Rhineland in the 14th century.
The most recent events depicted in the Chronicles refer to the time of the Crusades, but the entire rest of it pertains to the period before 70 CE.