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 ''

Amoraim ''Amoraim'' (Aramaic language, Aramaic: plural or , singular ''Amora'' or ''Amoray''; "those who say" or "those who speak over the people", or "spokesmen") refers to Jewish scholars of the period from about 200 to 500 Common Era, CE, who "sai ...

'' period in Rabbi Zerahiah's ''Sefer Hayasher'' * ''Sefer haYashar'', a commentary on the Pentateuch by the 12th-century Abraham ibn Ezra * ''Sefer haYashar'', by the Kabbalist and philosopher

Abraham Abulafia Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia ( he, אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה) 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 ...

* ''Sefer haYashar'' (Rabbeinu Tam), 12th-century treatise on Jewish ritual and ethics * ''Sefer haYashar'' of

Zerahiah the Greek Rabbi Zerachiah the Greek (in Hebrew, ''Zerachiah ha-Yavani'' or ''ha-Yewani''; sometimes known by the acronymistic nickname "Ra'Za'H") was a Greek-Jewish ethicist who resided in the Byzantine Empire in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Of his ...

, a moral treatise of the 13th century *

Sefer haYashar (midrash) Sefer haYashar () is a medieval Hebrew ''midrash'', also known as the Toledot Adam and Divrei haYamim heArukh. The Hebrew title "Sefer haYashar" might be translated as the "Book of the Correct Record", but it is known in English translation most ...

, a 16th-century book of Jewish legends

Other uses

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

* ''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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