Sefer haYashar (

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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''.

Rabbinical treatises

* ''Sefer haYashar'', a collection of sayings of the sages from the ''

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'' period in Rabbi Zerahiah's ''Sefer Hayasher'' * ''Sefer haYashar'', a commentary on the Pentateuch by the 12th-century

Abraham ibn Ezra Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (, often abbreviated as ; ''Ibrāhim al-Mājid ibn Ezra''; also known as Abenezra or simply ibn Ezra, 1089 / 1092 – 27 January 1164 / 23 January 1167)''Jewish Encyclopedia''online; '' Chambers Biographical Dictionar ...

* ''Sefer haYashar'', by the Kabbalist and philosopher

Abraham Abulafia Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia () was the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah". He was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291 following a stay on the small and windswept island of Comino (the smal ...

* ''Sefer haYashar'' (Rabbeinu Tam), 12th-century treatise on Jewish ritual and ethics * ''Sefer haYashar'' of Zerahiah the Greek, a moral treatise of the 13th century *

Sefer haYashar (midrash) Sefer haYashar () is a medieval Hebrew language, Hebrew ''midrash'', also known as the Toledot Adam and Divrei haYamim heArukh. The Hebrew title "Sefer haYashar" might be translated as the "Book of Righteousness" (or literally "Book of the Strai ...

, a 16th-century book of Jewish legends

Other uses

Book of Jasher (biblical references) The Book of Jasher (also spelled Jashar; ), which means the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man, is a lost book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often interpreted as a lost non-canonical book. Numerous forgeries purporting to be redi ...

* ''Book of Jasher'' (Pseudo-Jasher), an 18th-century forgery by a London printer, Jacob Ilive * ''Book of Jashar'', fictional translation of the supposed Book of Jasher mentioned in 2 Samuel by

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