Jacob Ilive, a religious radical who opposed the idea of eternal punishment for the damned and denied the divinity of Jesus Christ, produced a forgery in 1751 to set out his own religious ideas. They include a Midrash known as the Book of Jasher ( Sefer haYashar), which is apparently named after the earlier text. There are several other texts called the Book of Jasher which were written long after these references and are not the text referred to above. In the Rabbinic literature, there was speculation about whether the phrase refers to another, existing book of the Bible - maybe Genesis or Deuteronomy, or the twelve minor prophets - or to a now-lost text. It is suggested, based on these references, that it probably contained heroic songs. Some versions of Kings, including the Septuagint, contain a reference in 1 Kings 8:53 (suggesting a prayer of Solomon is in the book). It is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 (when Joshua makes the sun stand still, it says this was predicted in Jasher) and 2 Samuel 1:18 (which implies that the Book of Jasher describes the deaths of Saul and Jonathan). This title is translated as 'Book of the Upright' or 'Book of the Just Man', but transliterated from the Hebrew as 'Jasher' in the KJV, and sometimes spelt 'Jashar'. Since printing became affordable, various anthologies have been produced called things like The Lost Books of the Bible but if they were really lost how have they made it into print? Most are minor apocryphal texts or variations of other, more canonical texts. Website The Lost Books claims to have a list of over 500 'lost books' with titles such as Pseudo-Eupolemus, Magnesians, The Teachings of Addeus the Apostle, and the Testament of the Assumption of Moses. Book or books of Iddo, referenced at 2 Chronicles 9:29.Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, referenced at 1 Kings 14:19.Acts of Solomon, referenced at 1 Kings 11:41.Epistle to the Laodiceans, referenced at Colossians 4:16.Zeroth epistle to the Ephesians, referenced at Ephesians 3:3-4.Third epistle to the Corinthians, also called the 'Severe Letter', referenced at 2 Corinthians 2:4 and 2 Corinthians 7:8-9.Zeroth epistle to the Corinthians, referenced at 1 Corinthians 5:9.Various epistles associated with the prolific letter-writer Saint Paul of Tarsus:.

The Book of Jasher (as per Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18).On the other hand, given that many books known at the time the Bible was finally stitched up ended up in the apocrypha, and that others such as The Gospel of Thomas didn't even make that cut, it seems unlikely that anything new is going to be added even if found. If any of them ever existed, turn up and receive the seal of approval of entry into the canon, we might expect some theological revisionism refinement. Biblical divine inspiration and authority gives such works an especial potential importance. The Bible mentions and identifies certain texts which have (apparently) disappeared in the interim.

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