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The Book of Jasher (also spelled Jashar; Hebrew: סֵפֶר הַיׇּשׇׁר Sēfer haYyāšār), which means the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man, is a lost book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often interpreted as a lost non-canonical book. Numerous forgeries purporting to be rediscovered copies of this lost book have been ...
The book covers biblical history from the creation of Adam and Eve until a summary of the initial Israelite conquest of Canaan in the beginning of the book of Judges.. The Bible twice quotes from a Sefer haYashar, and this midrashic work includes text that fits both Biblical references — the reference about the Sun and Moon found in Joshua, and also the reference in 2 Samuel (in the Hebrew ...
Book of Jasher (biblical references) Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher), an 18th-century forgery by a London printer, Jacob Ilive; Book of Jashar, fictional translation of the supposed Book of Jasher mentioned in 2 Samuel by Benjamin Rosenbaum (born 1969)
The supposed lost book was declared an obvious hoax by the Monthly Review in the December of the year of publication. [4]The printer Jacob Ilive was sentenced in 1756 to three years' imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction at Clerkenwell, for writing, printing, and publishing the anonymous pamphlet Some Remarks on the excellent Discourses lately published by a very worthy ...
The Book of the Wars of the LORD is cited in the medieval Book of Jasher as being a collaborative record written by Moses, Joshua, and the children of Israel. [3] It was probably a collection of victory songs written about Israel's military conquest of Canaan .
Book of Gad the Seer; Book of Jasher (biblical book) Book of Jehu; Book of Nathan the Prophet; Book of Shemaiah the Prophet; Book of the Kings of Israel; Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel; Book of the Wars of the Lord
Decades before the latest eruption of war in Israel and Gaza that began with Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre — and well before Internet algorithms amplified misinformation — the Israeli-Palestinian ...
According to the Book of Jasher, Deborah was the daughter of Uz, who was the first son of Milcah and Nahor. Deborah joined Rebecca, her cousin, on her journey to marry Isaac. Rebecca later sent Deborah with two of Isaac's servants to Haran to find Jacob and ask him to return to his father's house in the land of Canaan. She remained in Haran ...