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It is also referenced in [[2 Samuel]] 1:18, in relation to teaching the use of the [[bow]] to the sons of [[Judah]].
It is also referenced in [[2 Samuel]] 1:18, in relation to teaching the use of the [[bow]] to the sons of [[Judah]].
At least two manuscripts claiming to be the Book of Jasher have surfaced. One was a forgery published in English in 1751, and since reprinted by the [[Rosicrucian]]s. The other was a translation of a medieval Hebrew text incorporating and expanding on content from [[Genesis]] and other Old Testament books. It was translated into English and published in 1840, and gained some popularity among early [[Mormon]]s when [[Joseph Smith]] wrote favorably of it. Academics and Bible scholars reject the first version as an obvious forgery, and the second version as being of no earlier than [[medieval]] origin.
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