Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-05-27

Am,o3rosIaster, or Hilary the Deacon. ac-
cording to Calmet, cites book entitled
James and Mambres, which is also quoted
~ ~. .ofisen, but held to be apocryphal.-
Fiiny Likewise refers to James and Joca-
oel' or Jotapa, as magicians, engaged with
MOSES. But Piiny was contemporary
OF Paul, OUTLYING him but ten wears.
90 also, was Josephus contemporary of
raui' though younger man, surviving
nun tnlrty years, and doubtless writing
aver the execution of the Apostle by Nero.
Paul, therefore, might have studied this
book of Jasher.
But that fact could not prove it to be
the same referred to in joshua and Samu-
lei: The song of David, in connection
with which reference is made to this book.
was ', written eleven hundred years before
the birth of Christ, and the triumph of
joshua was achieved more than four hun.
dred years anterior to the death of Saul !:
ana yet, the Book of Jasher now under
consideration speaks Of the. rape of the
SABINE women, which took place-if it
ever did take place not more than seven
hundred and fifty years before the birth of
Chrlst. Hence it will be seen that the
Book of Jasher of the Scriptures was
written centuries before the age of Rom
ulus. The only answer that can be inter
posed against this objtion, so far as we
can see, must be that the story of the sa-
blnes has been added, BY later hand. in
the same manner that Ezra is supposed to
have added occasional passages, explapa-
tory and otherwise, to the second canon,
while engaged in the revision.
We ought to mention, before closino
the present notice, that several of our
most learned Oriental scholars-amono
them Professors Bush and Turner-have
borne testimony to the purity of the He
brew. sit is pure Rabbinical Hebrew"
says Professor Bush-an expression indi-
eating his own opinion that it was written
very long ago, but yet subsequent to the
return from Babylon. 1t is doubtless the
same book mentioned by Horne. after
showing up the Infamous forgery of Hive.
as follows :-"There is also extant rab.
binical Hebrew Book of Jasher printed
at Venice in 1926, which is an exolana-
ton of the histories comprised in the
Pentateuch and Book of Joshua. Bar
toloccl, IN his Bibliotheca .Rabbiniea, states
that 1t contains some curious but MANY
fabulous things; and particularly that
this book was discovered at the time of
The destruction of the temple of Jerusa-
lem, In certain place in which an old
man was shut up, in whose possession
great number of Hebrew books were
found, and among them the Book of Jasher.
which was carried into Spain, and pre-
served at Seville, whence, finally, it was
taken TO Naples, where it was first pub |
lished."
But without further examination of the
subject at present, we join the Star in
commencing the Book of Jasher to the
attention Of the public, as work of un-
common interest, and very great curios.
lty- 1t is published by A. S. Gould, I44
Nassau street.-N Y Spec.
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