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Although there are 54 references to lost books in the Bible, most scholars believe that these citations refer only to about half a dozen books. Some of these books were probably simply lists of information instead of narrative works. The references to several other books are now too cryptic to allow scholars to determine their origins. But Duane Christensen suggests that two books, the Book of Jashar and the Book of the Wars of Yahweh, may have been ancient anthologies of epic poetry celebrating Israel’s heroic past.