Sefer haYashar
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Sefer haYashar (Hebrew ספר הישר "Book of the Upright One"). In English, Jashar was traditionally left untranslated and rendered Book of Jasher.
Biblical references
- Sefer haYashar (Biblical references), the book mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2Samuel 1:18.
Rabbinical treatises
- Sefer haYashar (Amoraim), a collection of sayings of the sages from the Amoraim period in Rabbi Zerahiah's Sefer Hayasher
- Sefer haYashar (Ibn Ezra), a commentary on the Pentateuch by the 12th-century Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra
- Sefer haYashar, by the Kabbalist and philosopher Rabbi Abraham Abulafia
- Sefer haYashar, Jacob ben Meir's 12th-century treatise on Jewish ritual and ethics
- 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
- Sefer haYashar of Jonah ben Abraham, a 14th-century work by Rabbi Jonah ben Abraham of Gerona
- Sefer haYashar (midrash), a 16th-century book of Jewish legends covering the period from the creation of man to the first wave of the conquest of Canaan
Forgery
- Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher), an 18th-century forgery by a London printer, Jacob Ilive
Fiction
- Book of Jashar by Benjamin Rosenbaum, a fictional translation of the supposed Book of Jasher mentioned in 2 Samuel.