  In Sefer ha-Qabbalah, which has become a classic in Hebrew literature, Abraham ibn Daud provides a survey of Jewish and general history and attempts to demonstrate the continuity of rabbinic Judaism.  According to G.D.Cohen this work also conveys an esoteric message of messianic redemption in the near future, a thesis that was challenged by E. Krakowski (2007) as well as by K. Vehlow, who recently edited the two chronicles appended to Sefer ha-Qabbalah: one on the history of the kings of Israel during the Second Temple period, and the other on the history of Rome, which are similarly polemical in nature (2013). The chronicles had a wide impact on Protestant authors from the 16th century onwards.