The Book of Jasher - What was this lost Hebrew scripture about?
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- Episode 5 Extras: Three times the Old Testament cites an obscure work of Hebrew scripture called the Book of Jasher. What can these brief excerpts and their connections with other scriptures and extra-biblical sources tell us about Jasher? And does it still exist today?
Contents
0:00 Prologue
1:29 Quote 1: The sun at Gibeon
3:00 Did the book of Jasher actually exist?
4:55 Quote 2: A lament for Saul and Jonathan
6:35 Quote 3: The dedication of Solomon’s temple
10:36 Conclusion
11:13 Credits and Easter egg
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Works cited
⦾ Baruch Margalit (1992). “The Day the Sun Did Not Stand Still: A New Look at Joshua X 8-15”. Vetus Testamentum, 42/4. 1992.
⦾ Thomas Dozeman (2015). Joshua 1-12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Yale Bible Commentary series). 2015.
⦾ John Day (2007). “Gibeon and the Gibeonites in the Old Testament”. Reflection and Refraction: Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld, 2007.
⦾ Katherine Stott (2008). Why Did They Write This Way? Reflections on References to Written Documents in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Literature, 2008.
⦾ Kristin De Troyer (2006). “Reconstructing the OG of Joshua”. Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures, 2006.
⦾ Philippe Wajdenbaum (2011). Argonauts of the Desert, 2011.
⦾ Diana Edelman (1991). King Saul in the Historiography of Judah, 1991.
⦾ David P. Wright (2001). Ritual in Narrative, 2001.
⦾ J. Glen Taylor (1993). Yahweh and the Sun: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sun Worship in Ancient Israel, 1993.
⦾ Kevin L. Spawn (2002). ‘As it is written’ and other citation formulae in the Old Testament, 2002.
⦾ Robert Karl Gnuse (1997). No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel, 1997.
⦾ P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. (1984). II Samuel (Anchor Bible).
Music by Craig Allen Fravel, Cody Martin, Acreage, and Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au).
Special thanks to John Kesler for feedback and advice.
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There is no doubt that yours is one of the most exciting, factual, imaginative and professional sites that deal with the Bible that I have found! Just superbly well-done!
Thanks, that's very encouraging!
A new video less than a month! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
I love the book of Jasher, regardless of it's official acceptance in canon, it has strengthened my faith and opened my eyes and expanded my vision... God is more than you can imagine.
Can't say whether you should read it, or not, but I believe if you are filled with the Holy Spirit you will have clarity and if nothing else be amazed by this book, and have your faith strengthened furthermore.
Hi, I just found your channel this week, and have been watching through it all.
I'm paused halfway through this one, cause I wanted to point out something:
"Dew, Rain, and the Shaking Earth" are El's Daughters. Pidray, Arsay, and Tallay.
Found it really interesting to see them pop up here, and then especially since you made the connection to Aqhat, but then not to who those characters are within that context.
Anyway, love the channel, and you're inspiring more research avenues for me that I had been unaware of. Both in this video, and the Rahab parts of your Chaoskompf one. Best of luck, can't wait to watch everything you do in the future as well.
And then, in the back half, Shamash (Utu), is Nanna's son. Nanna being the moon - aka Sin (of Sinai, for instance) or Yarikh (of Jericho (and I wonder if of Jerich-Shalim for Jerusalem).
I don't like, have a thesis yet. Just a few interesting things to point out in response to what you brought up in this video.
Interesting, I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the nice words.
great as always!
Ooh the Illiad connection is interesting.
Yeah. I'm actually not sure myself whether Agamemnon's request is meant literally or figuratively (in the sense of "let us defeat the enemy before sundown"), but quite a few scholars think it's a close parallel. And it could always be that a biblical author who knew the story took it literally regardless of its original intention.
Very good video! Another theretical document I find extremely interesting that is similar to Jasher is the Court History of David both are mentioned in the Deutornomic History. I find the Court History more likely to exist though than Jasher though (although I still find it likely the Book of Jasher existed), however, I have do have to do some more research on the topic before I can say that with confidence.
Edit: "History of David" not "Court History of David" those are two separate ideas I confused
where Is the court history of David mentioned? I've heard of the annals of the kings of Judah or isreal but not the court history of David
@@wannabe_scholar82 The idea varies, some believe the court history expands just 2 Samuel, specifically the accounts of David's endeavors. Amihai Mazar referred to documents made by Solomon and David's court as "court history", but I most likely am getting the ideas mixed up lol. But I am referring to the library of sources used by the authors of Samuel and Kings, regardless of identification. So yes those annals would be apart of it, and so would the Book of the Acts of Solomon (along with other theoretical sources not mentioned by the Deutoronomic Historian). As I said I need to do more research, I couldn't even get the name of the idea right😂
Edit: I just found a article where Nadav Na'aman referred to it as "the History of David" so I'm not to far off lol. I'm kind of embarrassed too ngl lol.
@@ClayandPapyrus ahh don't be embarrassed, it happens to the best of us. nonetheless very interesting stuff!
@@wannabe_scholar82 I wouldn't be as embarassed if I didn't want to study the idea in college, and mentioned it in applications lol
@@ClayandPapyrus oh are you pursuing a degree in biblical studies?
I wouldn't say Yahweh himself was a solar deity, but I'm sure he had some association and/or power over it.
Yeah, there's clearly something there, but the details are elusive. A few people, like Taylor, suspect the Yahweh-sun association was stronger at the Gibeon sanctuary, before the religion was centralized at Jerusalem.
I would put forward that the mention of the sun and it's abode and YaHUaH and His Abode in 1st Kings in the masoretoc and in 3rd Kings in the septuagint in Solomons speech, alludes to the Fact the sun (created by YaHUaH) is clearly visible, but Yet YaHUaH is not seen. Shalum :)
I don't know if I would say that Enoch was lost, considering that the Ethiopian people kept a continuous extensive use of the book throughout millenia
Maybe that wasn't the clearest way to put it. Basically, no one in the West (outside of Ethiopia) knew that it had survived until modern times. Scottish adventurer James Bruce brought three copies back to Europe with him in 1773, and that's basically when it was rediscovered.
what are your thoughts on the book of the wars of Yahweh
I haven't looked into it much (yet). The quote in Numbers suggests something quite similar to the book of Jasher.
Are the personification of the sun and moon meant to be the Semitic deities Shapash and Yarikh?
So it seems. Two of the poems refer to "Shemesh" (the Hebrew name for the solar deity) as if it was a name and not simply "the sun".