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Old Testament

Jashar was an ancient Hebrew book mentioned in the Old Testament, but not included in the biblical canon.

Jashar, meaning 'the upright' or 'the righteous,' is the title of an ancient Israelite book of heroic poetry cited twice in the Old Testament: in Joshua 10:13, where it provides the source for the poem about the sun standing still, and in 2 Samuel 1:18, where David's lament over Saul and Jonathan is said to be written in the Book of Jashar. This lost collection appears to have been a national epic or anthology of heroic poems celebrating Israel's military and religious history, similar in function to the Book of the Wars of the Lord mentioned in Numbers 21:14.