Friday 30 December 2011 A Lost Book Of The Bible Jasher

In the Bible, bestow are two sensational references to a book that is not part of canonical scripture. It is the Amount of Jasher. In the visions of Emanuel Swedenborg, he was outmoded that this book was auxiliary ancient than the Bible we now confine, that it was not lost, but was unused intact:"That a Remark existed accompanied by the Ancients is precise from the writings of Moses in which he mentions it, and gives quotations from it Num. xxi 14, 15, 27-30. Its older parts were called THE WARS OF JEHOVAH, and the prophetical parts ENUNCIATIONS.....In summation to these Books, comment is through by David and by Joshua of the prophetical Amount of the Dull Remark, called the Amount OF JASHER, or the Amount OF THE Fully clad. David refers to it in the subsequent passage: David lamented... chief Saul and chief Jonathan... Then he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: idea, it is written in the Amount of Jasher. 2 Sam. i 17, 18.In Joshua it is mentioned in this passage: Joshua held, Sun, stand thou unused upon Gibeon: and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon! Is not this written in the Amount of Jasher? Joshua x 12, 13.After that, I was experienced that the highest seven chapters of Emerge, are current in that Dull Remark, and that not the most minuscule word is wanting." (TCR 103).The matter of the book of Jasher are clarified make higher in a later vision:"Seven days ago, some time ago I was collecting what Moses wrote in the twenty-first chapter of Audience from the two books called The Wars of Jehovah and Enunciations, some angels were save who told me that relatives books were the ancient Remark, the older parts of which were called the Wars of Jehovah, and the foretelling Enunciations; and they held that this Remark is unused conserved in illusion, and in use accompanied by the ancient inhabitants bestow who had this Remark some time ago they were in the world. These ancient inhabitants, accompanied by whom that Remark is unused in use in illusion, were in part from the land of Canaan and the virtually countries, as Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Chaldea, Assyria, Egypt, Sidon, Tyre, and Nineveh; the populate of all of which kingdoms had tactician adore and consequently a knowledge of correspondences. The wisdom of that time was from that knowledge, and by it men had middle objective, and speaking with the tone. Those who knew the correspondences of that Remark were called prudent and razor-sharp, and afterward diviners and Magi. But such as that Remark was full of such correspondences as uncongenially signified sound effects celestial and spiritual, and consequently began to be imitation by various, in course of time by the Lord's Spiritual Good fortune it dead, and extra Remark was unqualified, written by correspondences not so extreme, and this through the prophets accompanied by the sons of Israel. In this Remark various names of the seats, both in the land of Canaan and stout about in Asia, are retained, all of which signified sound effects and states of the church; but the significations were from the ancient Remark. For this proof Abram was commanded to go within that land, and his posterity through Jacob were led within it. Of that ancient Remark which existed in Asia in advance the Israelitish Remark, I am permitted to allege this new thing, namely, that it is unused conserved bestow accompanied by the inhabitants who conscious in Endless Tartary. In the spiritual world I confine talked with spirits and angels from that land, who held that they confine a Remark, and confine had it from ancient times; and that they stand their Spiritual adore according to this Remark, and that it consists only this minute of correspondences. They held, that in it with is the Amount of Jasher, which is mentioned in Joshua (10:12, 13), and in 2 Samuel (1:17, 18); and that they confine with accompanied by them the books called the Wars of Jehovah and Enunciations, which are mentioned by Moses (Num. 21:14, 15, and 27-30); and some time ago I read to them the words that Moses had quoted therefrom, they searched to see if they were bestow, and found them; from which it was precise to me that the ancient Remark is unused accompanied by that inhabitants. Spell poetry with them they held that they worshiped Jehovah, some as an unremarkable God, and some as seeming. They with told me that they do not carte blanche foreigners to come accompanied by them, impede the Chinese, with whom they cherish enjoyable personal, such as the Chinese Ruler is from their country; with that the associates is so biting that they do not claim that any area in the whole world is auxiliary populous, which is definitely authentic from the wall so various miles in extent which the Chinese pioneer built as a protection neighboring influx from these inhabitants. I confine make higher heard from the angels, that the highest chapters of Emerge which purify of firm, of Adam and Eve, the garden of Eden, their sons and their posterity down to the well up, and of Noah and his sons, are with contained in that Remark, and consequently were transcribed from it by Moses. The angels and spirits from Endless Tartary are seen in the southern region on its eastern coop up, and are on bad terms from others by domicile in a sophisticated page, and by their not permitting human being to come to them from the Christian world, or, if any seeming, by guarding them to store their return. Their possessing a miscellaneous Remark is the reason of this unfriendliness." (TCR 279)An ancient Remark in Tartary? Where is this? According to the Wikipedia:TATARY or Endless TATARY (Latin: "Tataria" or "Tataria Magna") was a name hand-me-down by Europeans from the Principal Ages until the twentieth century to label a biting tract of northern and intermediate Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Oceanic inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples of the Mongol People who were generically referred to as "Tartars", i.e. Tatars. It integrated the hurry areas of Siberia, Turkestan (in the company of East Turkestan), Best quality Mongolia, Manchuria, and sometimes Tibet.As of yet, this interpretation on Tartary from Swedenborg is unconfirmed. The main religion of the area is Tibetan Buddhism, but they confine a miscellaneous set of texts. However, the ancient book of Jasher may confine been bare accompanied by the Jews in Venice in the 17th century, and was translated within English quite specifically, in 1840. Near is a history of the simulate according to the Wikipedia: "SEFER HAYASHAR (MIDRASH), a Hebrew midrash memorable in English rewording principally as "THE Amount OF JASHER". The book is named in arrears the Sefer HaYashar mentioned in Joshua and 2 Samuel. The Hebrew classical was marked in Venice in 1625 and the introduction refers to an earlier 1552 announce in Naples of which neither track or other comment has been found. The laser copier Joseph ben Samuel claimed the work was deceptive by a pare named Jacob the son of Atyah from an ancient detail whose letters can not much be through out. This work is not to be misty with an cube simulate by the vastly name, which, according to the "Encyclopaedia Judaica", Largest part 14, p. 1099, was "it would seem written in the 13th century." Scholars confine deliberate multiple dates relating the 9th century and 16th century. In the least Mormon scholars["organization considered necessary"] tactic this to be the authentic Sefer HaYashar referenced in the Old Shrine (whereas in in mint condition decades this has become a minority view). That belief comes from the establishment to the 1625 classical which says its original bottom book came from the remains of Jerusalem in 70AD. A Roman allowed named Sidrus bare a Hebrew scholar beating in a concealed library. The allowed reportedly took the scholar and all the books without risk back to his estates in Seville, Spain, which in Roman mature was memorable as Hispalis, the conservative metropolitan area of Hispalensis (cf. Hispania Baetica). At some changeable complain in history (supposedly in arrears the Islamic conquest of Iberia (cf. Al-Andalus)), the detail was transferred or sold to the Jewish college in Cordova, Spain. Scholars allegedly had conserved the book until its printings in Naples in 1552 and in Venice in 1625. Oustide of the establishment to the 1625, bestow is no outline to beam any of this story. The book covers Biblical history from the firm of Adam and Eve to a drawn from a keg of the core Israelite conquest of Canaan in the beginning of the book of Board of judges. It contains references that fit relatives cited in the Biblical texts, both the reference about the sun and moon found in Joshua and with the reference in 2 Samuel (in the Hebrew but not in the Septuagint) to teaching the Sons of Judah to be dissimilar with the bow. This appears in Jasher 56:9 accompanied by the endure words of Jacob to his son Judah: Absolutely teach thy sons the bow and all weaponry of war, in order that they may be dissimilar the battles of their brother who motion command chief his enemies. But the book in its complete cannot be so old as outmoded by chapter 10 winding sheet the descendants of Noah which even contains medieval names for territories and countries, perhaps principally blatantly "Franza" for France and "Lumbardi" in "Italia" for Lombardy." As for the interpretation spare on the Franks and Lombards, it is my place that these are later interpolations. It was usual for the Jews to decrease to place names or peoples by the names they were memorable by, which often led to anachronisms from relatives who did not advise that. For style, in the role of the book of Exodus mentions the name of the Pharoah Ramesses, various illegally downright that the Exodus occured wearing his pronounce. It was actually appreciably earlier, but the reference to Ramesses gives a taste some time ago the book was finalized. Wikipedia continues make higher on the book of Jasher: "Ceiling of its extra-Biblical accounts are found in just about the vastly form in either other medieval compilations, or in the Talmud, or in other midrash or in Arabic sources. For style it contains the brassy inform that Lamech and his son Jabal by accident killed Cain, consequently requiting his profanity for contract killing Abel. The Arabic transactions counter that if the establishment to the 1625 classical is an "elaboration", it was moreover it would seem written by a Jew who lived in Spain or southern Italy. The work was hand-me-down much but not treat auxiliary than various other sources in Louis Ginzberg's "Myths of the Jews". In the 19th century, Moses Samuel of Liverpool, England, was unqualified a tow of the Hebrew work and became guaranteed that the search of this work realistically was the vastly "Amount of the Fully clad" referenced in Hebrew scriptures. He translated it within English and 1839 sold it to Mordecai Manuel Noah, a Jewish New York publisher who published it the subsequent rendezvous. Noah's published book with contained within it endorsements by four top American Hebrew scholars of the day, all of whom praised the touch of the rewording but held zip to road sign they held it to be the work referred to in Joshua and 2 Samuel. For sure one of them, Samuel H. Turner, referred to the "Rabbinical writer" in this way: The work itself is observably anesthetize in the purest Rabbinical Hebrew, with a gigantic intermixture of the Biblical language,... It is sometimes misty with the very miscellaneous Amount of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher), which is held to be an obvious copy. Pseudo-Jasher claims to confine been translated by the Anglish preacher Alcuin. That classical was marked by Jacob Ilive in 1751 in Early Innovative English. Alcuin strut Old English (or Old Anglish), which related with the printer's rise anti-Christian sentiments would counter that it was a charade."Although the actual simulate for this book of Jasher is unpunctually, one thing that the Wikipedia convey does not comment is that the other translators conflict the Hebrew it contained was practically ancient. After that, the book of Jasher solves practically a few older impenetrability, such as that of the Exodus - I claim some of its thrilled was hand-me-down in the work, The Colander of the Exodus. Minimally the Exodus occurred wearing the instantaneous cover of the Old Municipal of Egypt, not wearing the Hyksos mature as so various confine held. Ominously of the chronology of the ancient world is practically messed up, according to a number of works by Immanuel Velikovsky.This work deserves auxiliary curiosity. As avowed in the visions of Swedenborg, it does conceal a explicit account of the at the wrong time chapters of Emerge. It is so explicit, and so widespread, focus outline does road sign that Moses definitely hand-me-down it to create the Torah. Although bestow are physical some later interpolations, from reading it I devise the mainstay ancient simulate of Jasher is conserved all-around.Don't tolerate my word for it, read it for yourself! You can find it online at http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/jasher/home.html.