Sefer haYashar
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Sefer haYashar. In English Jashar was traditionally, perhaps mistaken as a name and left untranslated, rendered Book of Jasher.
There are a number of works with this name:
Rabbinical Treatises:
Forgery
Fiction
There are a number of works with this name:
- Sefer haYashar (Biblical references)Sefer haYashar (Biblical references)The Book of Jasher or Book of the Just Man is a unknown book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The translation "Book of the Just Man" is the traditional Greek and Latin translation, while the rendering a personal name "Jasher" is found in the King James Bible, 1611.-Biblical references:The book...
, the book mentioned in JoshuaBook of JoshuaThe Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament. Its 24 chapters tell of the entry of the Israelites into Canaan, their conquest and division of the land under the leadership of Joshua, and of serving God in the land....
10:13 and 2 SamuelBooks of SamuelThe Books of Samuel in the Jewish bible are part of the Former Prophets, , a theological history of the Israelites affirming and explaining the Torah under the guidance of the prophets.Samuel begins by telling how the prophet Samuel is chosen by...
1:18.
Rabbinical Treatises:
- Sefer haYashar (Amoraim): A collection of sayings of the sages from the Amoraim period (1st and 2nd centuries) mentioned by Seymour J. Cohen in the introduction to Rabbi Zerahiah's Sefer Hayasher. Not known to be still in existence.
- Sefer haYashar (Ibn Ezra), a commentary on the Pentateuch by the 12th century Rabbi Abraham Ibn EzraAbraham ibn EzraRabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra was born at Tudela, Navarre in 1089, and died c. 1167, apparently in Calahorra....
. - Sefer haYashar (Abraham Abulafia), by the Kabbalist and philosopher Rabbi Abraham AbulafiaAbraham AbulafiaAbraham ben Samuel Abulafia , the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah", was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and died sometime after 1291, in Comino, Maltese archipelago.-Early life and travels:...
. - Sefer haYashar (Rabeinu Tam), a famous 12th century treatise on Jewish ritual and ethics by Jacob ben Meir.
- Sefer haYashar (Rabbi Levita), a moral treatise written by Rabbi Shabbatai Carmuz Levita in 1391 and preserved in a Vatican manuscript according to Edgar J. Goodspeed (in Modern Apocrypha, Famous Biblical Hoaxes [The Beacon Press, Boston, 1956])
- Sefer haYashar of Zerahiah ha-Yevani, a moral treatise of the 13th century published as Ha-Yewani Zerahiah, Sefer Hayashar, The Book of the Righteous, ed. and transl. by Seymour J. Cohen (New York, 1973).
- Sefer haYashar of Jonah ben Abraham, a 14th century work by Rabbi Jonah ben Abraham of Gerona mentioned by Seymour J. Cohen in his Sefer Hayashar. Not known to be still in existence.
- Sefer haYashar (midrash)Sefer haYashar (midrash)The Sefer haYashar is a Hebrew midrash also known as the Toledot Adam and Dibre ha-Yamim be-'Aruk. It is known in English translation mostly as The Book of Jasher...
(Naples, 1552), a book of Jewish legends covering the period from the creation of man to the first wave of the conquest of CanaanCanaanCanaan is a historical region roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan...
, not certain to have existed before 1625. Book of Jasher (J. H. Parry & Company), Salt Lake City 1887
Forgery
- Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher)Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher)The Book of Jasher, or Pseudo-Jasher, is an 18th-century literary forgery by Jacob Ilive. It purports to be an English translation by Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus of a lost Book of Jasher...
, an 18th century forgery by a London printer, Jacob Ilive, claiming to be a translation of the lost book of Jasher by AlcuinAlcuinAlcuin of York or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York...
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Fiction
- Book of Jashar by Benjamin RosenbaumBenjamin RosenbaumBenjamin Rosenbaum is an American science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction writer and computer programmer, whose stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the BSFA award, and the World Fantasy Award...
. A fictional translation of the supposed Book of Jasher mentioned in 2 Samuel.