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See Louis Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), a shorter version of a seven-volume work of the same title, published in 1956 by Simon and Schuster as Legends of the Bible.

Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).

Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, The Bible and the Ancient Near East, 4th ed. (New York: Norton, 1997), pp. 171–172; 4th ed. originally published in 1953 as Introduction to Old Testament Times.

Cyrus H. Gordon, “Ugarit as Link between Greek and Hebrew Literatures,” Revista degli Studi Orientali 29 (1954), pp. 161–169.

If the latter is the case, the title may be related to the term Jeshurun, a variant form of the name Israel (cf. Deuteronomy 32:15, 33:5, 26).

The LXX text in Codex Vaticanus and the Lucianic recension add the words “Is it not written in the Book of the Upright One [Book of Jashar]?”

Encyclopaedia Judaica, s.v. “Book of Jashar.”

Robert H. Pfeiffer, “Chronicles, I and II,” in Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1962), vol. 1, p. 578.

Some scholars have suggested that the Chronicler invented such references to legitimate his portrayal of the history of Judah. See Rosemarie Micheel, Die Seher- und Prophetenueberlieferungen in der Chronik, Bieträge zur evangelischen Theologie 18 (Frankfurt am Main, 1983), pp. 79–80; citation from John W. Wright, “Iddo,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 3, p. 376.

Alfred Jepsen, Die Quellen des Königsbuches (Halle: M. Niemeyer, 1956), pp. 54–60.