Special Edition: The Book of Jasher 1
Posted by Rob Skiba on Nov 17, 2016 in Jasher | 8 comments
This show originally aired on 12/16/2010.
This is a Revolutionary Radio Project Special Edition. The Bible says (in several places) that “in the mouth of two or more witnesses you can establish whether or not a thing is true.” That being the case, there are books mentioned in the Bible that are not in the Bible. One such book is named twice (two witnesses), and that is the Book of Jasher. This is a fascinating book that most people have never heard of. But this book elaborates on so much of the Bible – especially Genesis. With this show, I am beginning a series wherein I will read (and give some commentary on) The Book of Jasher.
It’s clear that Jasher was written before Joshua; do we know if it predates Genesis also?
I suspect it was written sometime around the same period that the Torah was or shortly thereafter. I do not believe it preceded it.
I read this book a long time ago after having read the Bible as we have it today. It helped A LOT! Even though it was way out there on somethings.
It even said that there was a reason formJob’s troubles to be that he suggested to kill the sons Hebrews.
Rob, posted this “elsewhere,” but potentially huge about “the SERPENT which God HAD CREATED WITH THEM IN THE EARTH”….Woah…
Here is the problem, the 66 books of the Bible are inspired right? God’s word does not have mistakes right? Everything is true right? Well Rob, can you say yes yes and yes to all three of these questions when talking about the book of jasher ? What about the book of enoch? What about the book of Jubilees? if you can’t say yes to all 3 of those questions than you have a big problem. The problem is that if you can’t say EVERYTHING is true in those 3 books than you have NO IDEA what is and isn’t true, you have no way of knowing or proving it. It would be just your interpretation of what YOU think is true. So therefore you have no idea if it is just stuff people made up or if it’s stuff that is true. When we take the stand that the 66 books of the Bible are 100 % true than we don’t run into the same problem. So either accept these 3 books as 100 percent true( and the Enoch calandar) and inspired by God or you are just believing something that you yourself would admit isn’t 100% true and setting yourself up to being mislead. You say on 2 or 3 witness truth is established, OK so besides the Genesis 6 vague account, that may or may not be saying that the Giants were the of springs of the sons of god and daughters of men (and it can be interpreted as the verse is only making a statement “there were Giants In those days” without saying where the giants came from, show us another witness than can prove that the Giants were the children of the Sons of god and the daughters of men?
I don’t mean to sound rude, I do like your work. I just never hear people ask the hard questions so I have to.. thanks Rob.
Don’t need to say “yes, yes, yes” concerning Jasher as NO ONE (including me) has EVER put it on the same level as Scripture. It was never intended to be considered as such. As for Enoch, MANY “Church Fathers” and indeed Biblical authors DID hold it to the same level as Scripture. Jubilees is a wild card as far as I’m concerned. But so what? I’m more than content with the 66 and I am capable of realizing that truth does exist outside of Scripture. And to deny the angel-human offspring of Genesis 6 is to prove exceptionally extreme ignorance of the historical facts, which are 100% supported by Scripture, by “Biblically-endorsed” texts (such as Enoch) and by solid physical evidence, well documented throughout the ages. You most certainly can not say “yes, yes, yes” to any notion of the ridiculously unsupported, nonsensical “Sethite Theory.” Genesis 6 is anything but “vague.” I am not trying to be rude, but your questions have been thoroughly addressed countless times by myself and many others going all the way back to the authors of canonized Scripture.
Thanks for the reply,
Yes truth does exist outside of scripture but the problem is that any work that one does not consider inspired can have mistakes and errors or just made up stuff. Especially if the text is older, we have no way of knowing which part if it could or could not be true.
I was not supporting the sethite view but I pretty sure Book of Adam and Eve does support it. I was only saying that one cannot prove with the bible alone that the Giants were the off springs of the sons of god and daughters of men. The text says there “were” not became or arose, as if the giants were the fruit of the previously mentioned marriages, but they existed contemporaneous with the sons of god. Also the author of Job was aware of the term ma’lak (Angel) as it is used in job 4:18. So I don’t understand why God wouldn’t use it again in job 38? Why used the term sons of god when he was referring to the angels? To me it is not clear who the sons of god were and it’s definitely not clear where the giants came from. We can assume things based on information from outside of scripture but we cannot say 100% that is true. Giants may have existed but scripture does not mention their origin and one scripture in genesis 6 that could be interpreted a completely different way, to me is a shaky foundation. If one holds to the belief that book of enoch is scripture than in my opinion one has to also accept and follow the Enoch Calendar as we cannot pick and choose as many do with the sabbath.
In my Archon Invasion series I challenge the notion that “one cannot prove with the Bible alone that the Giants were the offsprings of the sons of god and daughters of men.” I believe the Bible more than supports that view. And MANY external sources (including Josephus) 100% back up the Biblical narrative making a rock-solid case for the sons of god being angels.
As for the Enoch calendar, it has not been a priority for me until now. But over the past few months, I’ve become more and more compelled to look into it a lot more. I’ve not ruled it out as a possibility at this time.