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The Sefer haYashar (first edition 1552) is a Hebrew ''midrash'' also known as the Toledot Adam and Dibre ha-Yamim be-'Aruk. The Hebrew title may be translated ''Sefer haYashar '' - "Book of the Upright" - but it is known in English translation mostly as ''The Book of Jasher'' following English tradition. The book is named after the Book of Jasher mentioned in Joshua and 2 Samuel.〔Joseph Jacobs Schulim Ochser 1911 (Jewish Encyclopedia article )〕 Although it is presented as the original "Book of Jasher" in the translations such as that of Moses Samuel (1840), it is not accepted as such in rabbinical Judaism, nor does the original Hebrew text make such a claim. It should not be confused with the very different ''Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher)'' printed by Jacob Ilive in 1751, which claimed to have been translated by the English monk Alcuin. ==History== The earliest extant version of this Hebrew ''midrash'' was printed in Venice in 1625, and the introduction refers to an earlier 1552 "edition" in Naples, of which neither trace nor other mention has been found. The printer Joseph ben Samuel claimed the work was copied by a scribe named Jacob the son of Atyah, from an ancient manuscript whose letters could hardly be made out. This work is also not to be confused with an ethical text by the same name, which, according to the ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', Volume 14, p. 1099, was "probably written in the 13th century." Scholars have proposed various dates between the 9th century and 16th century. The Venice 1625 text was heavily criticised as a forgery by Leon Modena, as part of his criticisms of the ''Zohar'' as a forgery, and of Kabbalah in general. Modena was a member of the Venetian rabbinate that supervised the Hebrew press in Venice, and Modena prevented the printers from identifying ''Sefer ha-Yashar'' with the Biblical lost book.〔The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early ... - Page 68 Yaacob Dweck - 2011 "Modena compared the pseudepigraphic character of the Zohar to Sefer ha-Yashar, a Hebrew work printed in Venice in the early seventeenth century. 34 Sefer ha-Yashar appeared in Venice in 1625. See Joseph Dan, ed., Sefer ha-Yashar "〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sefer haYashar (midrash)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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