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It was not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It does not have quotes, references and allusions to it in books written after the time of Samuel but before the time of Christ.
It does not have quotes, references and allusions to it in books written during the Apostolic Age.
It does not have quotes, references and allusions to it in books written during the first sixteen centuries of Christianity.
It was never in any bound copy of the Bible for any Jewish or Christian group.
It does not have a clear rediscovery point, but is shrouded in secrecy.
In a word, the Book of Jasher that exists today lacks PROVENANCE, therefore it cannot be validated historically as being the same book used by Joshua and Samuel. Missing for 2,600 years then, voila! There it is? I don't think so.
As a point of contrast, I am not able to produce, for example, a photograph of the text of Enoch being penned by the Biblical Enoch. I can however, historically demonstrate that the Book of Enoch which is preserved complete in Ethiopia is the same Book of Enoch, Jude quoted. We do this by tracing the purported history of Ethiopic Enoch back to the Dead Sea Scrolls to demonstrate continuity FOR THE TEXT AS WE HAVE IT TODAY, not the book's Enochic authorship which is not demonstrable historically, (though I argue the circumstantial evidence points to this).
With Jasher, the TEXT AS WE HAVE IT TODAY cannot be connected historically to the text quoted by Joshua and Samuel. After Samuel, Jasher disappears then mysteriously reappearing, without provenance, 26 centuries, almost three millennia, later. That's just not how ancient books get copied, and preserved, and duplicated so as to survive the millennia.
In the version of the Book of Jasher that circulates today in 4:18, it says, “And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice.”
This version says that before the fall of the Watchers, they were judges and rulers over mankind. The rule of the Watchers over the sons of men, began after their fall, not before as this version has it. The rule of the Watchers over mankind was set up by their indoctrination of mankind, which also began after their fall. The goal of the Watchers ruling over man was to replace God's rulership over mankind.
Only after AD 70 did writings begin to show up which removed the angels from the narrative and insert sons of Seth or in this case 'judges and rulers'.
It does not have quotes, references and allusions to it in books written after the time of Samuel but before the time of Christ.
It does not have quotes, references and allusions to it in books written during the Apostolic Age.
It does not have quotes, references and allusions to it in books written during the first sixteen centuries of Christianity.
It was never in any bound copy of the Bible for any Jewish or Christian group.
It does not have a clear rediscovery point, but is shrouded in secrecy.
In a word, the Book of Jasher that exists today lacks PROVENANCE, therefore it cannot be validated historically as being the same book used by Joshua and Samuel. Missing for 2,600 years then, voila! There it is? I don't think so.
As a point of contrast, I am not able to produce, for example, a photograph of the text of Enoch being penned by the Biblical Enoch. I can however, historically demonstrate that the Book of Enoch which is preserved complete in Ethiopia is the same Book of Enoch, Jude quoted. We do this by tracing the purported history of Ethiopic Enoch back to the Dead Sea Scrolls to demonstrate continuity FOR THE TEXT AS WE HAVE IT TODAY, not the book's Enochic authorship which is not demonstrable historically, (though I argue the circumstantial evidence points to this).
With Jasher, the TEXT AS WE HAVE IT TODAY cannot be connected historically to the text quoted by Joshua and Samuel. After Samuel, Jasher disappears then mysteriously reappearing, without provenance, 26 centuries, almost three millennia, later. That's just not how ancient books get copied, and preserved, and duplicated so as to survive the millennia.
In the version of the Book of Jasher that circulates today in 4:18, it says, “And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice.”
This version says that before the fall of the Watchers, they were judges and rulers over mankind. The rule of the Watchers over the sons of men, began after their fall, not before as this version has it. The rule of the Watchers over mankind was set up by their indoctrination of mankind, which also began after their fall. The goal of the Watchers ruling over man was to replace God's rulership over mankind.
Only after AD 70 did writings begin to show up which removed the angels from the narrative and insert sons of Seth or in this case 'judges and rulers'.
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