THE BOOK OF JASHER
Book Details + Condition: By Jacob Ilive; Flaccus Albinus Alcoinus; Jasher; Alcuin. America-Jerusalem Rapid Bible Mission (Los Angeles), 1926. Very scarce early hardcover edition. Black pebbled boards with gilt title (etc) to front and spine. 215 pages. "THE BOOK OF JASHER is one of the long-lost, and long-sought for, sacred books which should have been included among the other books of the Bible but which was not because the original manuscript could not be located...". From this edition's Preface: "[A] party of archaeologists would leave California...and search in Palestine, in the land of Gibeon for this lost book of JASHER which they claimed would contain Joshua's own account of the conquest of Canaan.... [JASHER] offers on the margin a correct and helpful chronology of all events from Creation to Joshua. This is the book which is mentioned by Josephus, by the Talmud, and by the Bible itself in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18. If you read the Talmud you will find it often quotes from this book word for word; showing that the writers of the Talmud had access to it when they compiled the Talmud between the third and fourth centuries." In very good condition: interior hinge cracked, but binding remains firm and tight; light rubbing to corners; text is clean and unmarked.
