Jasher

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

BOOK OF, one of the lost books of the ancient Hebrews, which is quoted twice (Josh. x: 13: II Sam. i: 18). Regarding its character and contents there has been much speculation. Talmudic and later Jewish authorities identified it variously with Genesis (sometimes called "the Book of the Upright"), Deuteronomy, Judges, etc., to all which notions there is the obvious and fatal objection that the two quotations from it which survive are not to be found in any of these books, and could not possibly be found in the first two, as they the Sep native Sta al; aven ry is a tabl 50 born in A Ma he humble Eghtly escens is ts of a with the for and me to the id first ingdom of a mutual refer to incidents which occurred at a With this Jason complied, and a subsequent period in the national history. The omplied, and takis troop of Greeks set sail in the ship Argo, taking for Colchis. conjecture of the Syriac and Arabic translators said in the ship A Ætes promised to restore the Golden has been adopted by Dr. Lowth, to re pre Fleece, (the cause of the kinsman's Herder, and other scholars-viz. that the Book of cause of death,) and afford him every satisfaction if he Jasher was a collection afford him e would tame certain savof national ballads, recording the warlike deeds of the e certain age bulls, with brazen hoofs and horns, and make them national heroes or singing the fs and ho plow a field sacred to the gods. praises of otherwise celebrated men. The actual field sacred to At the same time he was to do some other book could not have been he was to services, such as earlier than the age of Solomon, especially killing dragon who guarded the Golden Fleece, killing the and, finally if a fragment relating to the building of Golden Fle to finish all his tasks in one day. By the temple in the Septuagint of I Kings, viii his tasks in the aid of Medea, the king's daughter . be from that work. Meden, the kin , an enchantress,