Story of Ahikar

by Anonymous, F.C. Conybeare (Translator)

The story of Ahikar has appeared in various forms and numerous languages over the course of the last two and a half millennia. Long known to readers of the Arabian Nights, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that scholars began to suspect that the legend had semi-biblical origins. Cambridge University Press had already published the first edition of The Story of Ahikar in 1898 when an enlarged and corrected second edition was prompted by the discovery of a series of Aramaic papyrus fragments on the island of Elephantine, dating from the fifth century before Christ. It is the second edition of The Story of Ahikar, first published in 1913, which is reproduced here. Meticulously assembled, this edition contains the Armenian, Old Turkish, Syriac, and Arabic versions of the story in their original source language with accompanying English translations. Also included are translations of the Slavonic, Ethiopic, and Aramaic versions, as well as fragments of the sayings and parables of Ahikar and the Greek text of the story.

Genres: Philosophy, History

412 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 5

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Reviews

[Santiago González · 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

[Hibiscus · 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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