Book of Jasher
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on Digital Social Hour.
ancient textsreligious studiesbiblical history
The general take
Justin Brown sees the Book of Jasher as a worthwhile apocryphal text worth reading alongside other non-canonical books like Enoch and Jubilees, though he's more cautious about diving into texts like the Nag Hammadi collection. He doesn't dismiss these excluded stories but treats them as interesting supplementary material rather than central religious sources.
Who said what
- JB
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“You have a bunch of apocryphal books, you know, like Enoch and Jasher, Jubilees, all those stories that didn't make it into the, you know, quote unquote canon. But I read those and I tell people, and I try to stay away from like the Nag Hammadi texts.”
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