The Story of Ahikar

by Anonymous, Billy Fincher

WE HAVE in The Story of Ahikar one of the most ancient sources of human thought and wisdom. Its influence can be traced through the legends of many people, including the Koran, and the Old and New TestameA mosaic found in Treves, Germany, pictured among the wise men of the world the character of Ahikar. Here is his colorful tale. The date of this story has been a subject of lively discussion. Scholars finally put it down about the First Century when they were proved in error by the original story turning up in an Aramaic papyrus of 500 B. C. among the ruins of Elephantine. The story is obviously fiction and not history. In fact the reader can make its acquaintance in the supplementary pages of The Arabian Nights. It is brilliantly written, and the narrative which is full of action, intrigue, and narrow escape holds the attention to the last. The liberty of imagination is the most precious possession of the writer.

Genres: Philosophy, History

70 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 5

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Reviews

[Jared · Rating 5 out of 5]

“[These are the wor]ds of one Ahiqar, a wise and skillful scribe, which he taught his son. N[ow he did not have offspring of his own, but] he said, ‘I shall nevertheless have a son!” Prior to this, Ahiqar had [become a gre]at man; he had [become counselor of all Assyria and kee]per of the seal of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, relies [on my counsel] and advice.’”

[Santiago González (puntoartica) · Rating 3 out of 5]

La antiquísima versión en arameo quizá está demasiado fragmentada como para disfrutarla. El texto en si es muy interesante, es un texto antiquísimo (s.V a.C.) que influyó en la Biblia en libros como Tobit y tiene paralelismos en otros como en Proverbios o Eclesiástico, además de influir también en la literatura árabe y griega, entre otras, por ser muy divulgado. Un descubrimiento más que interesante es esta obra.

[Aaliyah Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awedyh

[Tigran · Rating 3 out of 5]

A story worth a chapter or two in the Bible.
I'd like to read the Armenian version of the story featuring Khikar.

[Lulu]

First composed in Aramaic in Mesopotamia, probably around the late seventh or early sixth century BCE (5th BCE papyrus fragments). a story that circulated widely in the Middle and Near East. It has been characterised as "one of the earliest 'international books' of world literature". this 1913 trans

early on Ahiqar was translated into other languages.Fragments of a Demotic Egyptian translation are preserved in 1st c.A.D. papyri; the translation itself may be considerably older.During the Middle Ages and the beginning of modern times a greatnumber of versions were circulating in various languages (Syriac,Armenian, Arabic, Ethiopian, Old Church Slavonic, and later OldTurkish, Georgian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Rumanian). These later versions are more expanded than the Elephantine text andcontain many new episodes and details, which were presumably added with the passing of time; some of them had become part of Ahiqar already in the Hellenistic period. The most pristine among all later versions seem to be the Syriac and the various Armenian versions (which probably descend from a Syriac original): these possibly go back to late antiquity.

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« خبر حيقار الحكيم وزير سنحاريب الملك ونادان ابن اخته » ، ضمن كتاب : « أحيقار : حكيم من الشرق الأدنى القديم . أنيس فريحة ، بيروت : الجامعة الأميركية - منشورات كلية العلوم والآداب ، 1962 ، صفحة 146-115 ، [ نقلا عن طبعة المطبعة [ الكاثوليكية ثلاباء اليسوعين
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