Book of Jasher... Apocrypha?

Please forgive my ignorance but I was curious why this site lists the above as an apocryphal book but I don't see it in any of my logos as Apocrypha books? I know you can't believe everything you read on the internet 😃

https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/index.htm

I stumbled into it reading about Babel and got pointed to Jasher chapter 9

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DMB

Jasher was mentioned in the OT, and in the 1800s (I think), someone wrote a decent looking Jasher! So, indeed apocryphal, but technically pseudo (fake).

Randy W. Sims

I'm equally ignorant but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_books_referenced_in_the_Bible

[quote]

The Book of Jasher is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18 and also referenced in 2 Timothy 3:8.[1] From the context in the Book of Samuel, it is implied that it was a collection of poetry. Several books have claimed to be this lost text, some of which are discounted as pseudepigrapha. Certain members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints secured the copyright to a particular English translation of one of these and republished it in 1887 in Salt Lake City[2].

Mattillo

Interesting. I knew it was mentioned a few times but I thought the book was lost so I was surprised to see that this morning. I tried searching my library but didn't have the actual book in the link and I don't think I saw it in the logos catalogue... To my dictionaries next

DMB

Logos does have several resources that list all the missing OT and NT ref'd books (plus subsequent fathers refs). Jasher was a bit player.

Kenute P. Curry

So do we have all of these Apocryphal Books like the Book of Jasher in Logos or Faithlife Ebooks????? And if we don't, why not?

Dave Hooton

https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/index.htm

I stumbled into it reading about Babel and got pointed to Jasher chapter 9

I got interested in the Book of Jasher, so I compiled the PB from Wyn Laidig (above), which is based on this book. I also constructed a timeline of Adam to Shem based on the book of Genesis, and began to pick up some errors in Jasher.

Jared was 62 vs.162 when Enoch was born (2:37) and Methuselah was 87 vs.187 when Lamech was born (Ch 3:13). Also, see LXX.

If correct, they would impact the ages of Lamech & Noah elsewhere. However:-

Lamech is correctly 56 when Adam died (Ch 3:14) --> else Lamech would have been 256.
Noah is correctly 84 when Enosh died, and correctly 179 when Kenan (Cainan) died (Ch 5:1, 2); and
Noah is correctly 234 (Ch 5:3) when Mahalalel died.

Lamech was 160 vs.168 when Seth died (Ch 4:9) --> a computational error?
Lamech was 180 vs. 182 when Noah was born (Ch 4:11-14) --> 188 in LXX Gen 5:28
Lamech was 770 vs. 777 when he died (Ch 5:20) --> 753 in LXX Gen 5:31
Lamech died when Noah was 195 vs. 595 (Ch 5:19) --> a careless mistake.

From the other dates (770 & 180), Noah would have to be 590
Either way, Lamech died before his father (and within 10 years of the Flood).

Jared died when Noah was 336 vs.366 (Ch 5:4) --> a computational error?
Methuselah died at 960 vs. 969 (Ch 5:36) --> in the year of the Flood or 9 years before?

Both the Bible timeline and Ch 6:1 imply that Methuselah died in the year of the Flood

In Ch 5:1, "Enoch" should be "Enosh" ---> corrected in my PB.

Mattillo

Wow that is interesting. Thank you Dave. Besides the one correction you made, any others that you saw that I should make to the original from Wyn?

Dave Hooton

Other textual mistakes:

Content Ch 75 - "think it Time to..."
Content Ch 90 - various Caps
Ch 2:24 - "had withered away..." on a new line.
Ch 65:2 - "the counsellor*s..."
Ch 76:12 - "to bring forth Is rael..."

Dave Hooton

Content Ch 75 - "think it Time to..."
Content Ch 90 - various Caps

On closer examination, these are clearly idiosyncratic to the document. Don't change them.

Ch 65:2 - "the counsellor*s..."

There are 7 other occurrences. Look for counsellor* in the document.