Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel:
"The title … is literally,
the upright or correct record,
' but because the book was not known, it was therefore termed the
'Book of Jasher' this has caused some persons, who are
of the Hebrew language, to suppose that Jasher was the name of a prophet,
or of one of the Judges of Israel; … it is well known, even to a tyro in
Hebrew language, that the definite article, * is never prefixed to proper names….
The important transactions which are narrated with so remarkable
brevity in the Bible, are in Jasher, more circumstantially detailed as
the instance of the murder of Abel by his brother Cain…."
