Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 09/01/2007 20:05, Wayne Ingalls wrote:
> >From your list of choices, it seems to the be the translation of 1840 although the 
> translation says it was translated "from the original Hebrew."  Here is the link 
> from which I copied the text:
>    
>   http://www.nazarene.net/jasher/Book%20of%20Jasher.htm
>    
>   
Thank you. This was indeed translated from the original Hebrew, "the 
purest Rabbinical Hebrew, with a large intermixture of the Biblical 
idiom". It is not however, as claimed, the book "REFERRED TO IN JOSHUA 
AND SECOND SAMUEL", but a mediaeval Hebrew work. See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_haYashar_%28midrash%29

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