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Sefer haYashar (Hebrew ספר הישר) means "Book of the Upright One", but Jashar is generally left untranslated into English and so Sefer haYashar is often rendered as Book of Jasher.

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Sefer haYashar

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dictionary. Sefer haYashar (Hebrew ספר הישר) means "Book of the Upright One", but Jashar is generally left untranslated into English and so Sefer haYashar is often...

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Serah

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major disasters of human history. Genesis xlvi. 17 Numbers xxvi. 46. Sefer HaYashar Chapter 45, verses 12-17 Midrash Abot, p. 45. ib. Sotah 13a; Deuteronomy...

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Methuselah

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and the flesh of their bodies was scalded. The 17th-century midrashic Sefer haYashar ("Book of Jasher") describes Methuselah with his grandson Noah attempting...

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Rabbinic literature

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Zutta Sefer HaAggadah Sefer haYashar (midrash) Smaller midrashim Tanhuma Tanna Devei Eliyahu Tseno Ureno Yalkut Shimoni Keter Shem Tov Tzavaat HaRivash...

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Japhetites

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different from the much later one found in the 17th-century Rabbinic text Sefer haYashar ("Book of Jasher"): Sons of Japheth: "Gomer, Magog, and Madai, Nidiazech...

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Noah in rabbinic literature

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like their father, they will be troubled with making so many arks". Sefer haYashar and Genesis Rabba both agree that Noah's wife was called Naamah. According...

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Yashar

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Tzvi Hirsch Kaidanover Sefer haYashar (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yashar. If an internal link led...

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Sarah

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Judaism. 52: 63–103. doi:10.1163/15700631-BJA10026. S2CID 234296316. Sefer haYashar (Book of Jasher), section "Lek Leka". Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer 36 Genesis...

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Tribe of Benjamin

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(Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, ib.; "Sefer ha-Yashar," Wayishlaḥ, ib.; compare Heilprin, "Seder ha-Dorot," i. 52, ed. Warsaw). Benjamin, Joseph's...

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Esau

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Scherman, p. 139. Titus death Chabad.org Sotah 13a Shemot Rabbah 31:17 Sefer Hayashar Chapter 27 p. 77b "The survey of western Palestine : memoirs of the...

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Tower of Babel

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midrashic compilations Yosippon (c. 950), Chronicles of Jerahmeel, and Sefer haYashar. Other sources that mention 72 (or 70) languages scattered from Babel...

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List of Tosafists

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New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 624. Jacob Tam, "Sefer haYashar," No. 616, p. 72b, Vienna, 1811 Avi haEzri, § 417 l.c. § 420 "Semachot," § 73; "Haggahot...

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Apocalypse of Zerubbabel

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Sefer Zerubavel (Hebrew: ספר זְרֻבָּבֶל, romanized: Sēfer Zərubbāḇél), also called the Book of Zerubbabel or the Apocalypse of Zerubbabel, is a medieval...

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Talmud

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academies, polemicizes against textual emendation in his less studied work Sefer ha-Yashar. However, the Tosafists, too, emended the Talmudic text (See e.g. Baba...

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Tharbis

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lived before the Exodus. In the medieval rabbinic version found in the Sefer HaYashar, she is instead the king's wife, not his daughter, and the king is named...

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Gihon

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the Karun River in Iran and Kush with the land of the Kassites. The Sefer haYashar, a medieval Hebrew midrash, asserts that in the time of Enos, grandson...

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Japheth

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had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names. The Sefer haYashar ("Book of Jasher"), written by Talmudic rabbis in the 17th century,...

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Nimrod

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stories later reappear in other sources including the 16th century Sefer haYashar, which adds that Nimrod had a son named Mardon who was even more wicked...

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Potiphar

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foreigners like Potiphar and his wife would seduce Jews to sin. The medieval Sefer HaYashar, a commentary on the Torah, gives Potiphar's wife's name as Zuleikha...

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Gemara

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Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller Derech Tevunot and Sefer HaHigayon - R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Mevo haTalmud - Shmuel HaNagid "Gemara", Jewish Encyclopedia "Gemara"...

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Moses in rabbinic literature

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Josephus, l.c. 2:9, § 5; Sefer ha-Yashar p. 112b; Sotah 12b; Chronicle of Moses p. 3 Sotah l.c.; Chronicle of Moses l.c. Sefer ha-Yashar p. 113b Exodus 2:10...

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