- The
Story of Aḥiqaralso
known as the
Words of
Aḥiqar, is a
story first attested in
Imperial Aramaic from the
fifth century BCE on
papyri from Elephantine...
-
theme differently expressed occurs in the
Aramaic version of the
story of
Ahiqar,
dating from
about 500 BCE. 'The
bramble sent to the
pomegranate tree saying...
- sage
Ahiqar, who
reputedly lived during the
early 7th century BCE,
coined the
first known version of this phrase. One copy of the
Teachings of
Ahiqar, dating...
-
Papyrus narrating the
story of the wise
chancellor Ahiqar.
Aramaic script. 5th
century BCE. From Elephantine, Egypt.
Neues Museum, Berlin...
- of the
earliest allusions to a
fable of this kind
occurs in the
story of
Ahiqar, a
royal counsellor to late ****yrian
kings who is betra**** by his adopted...
-
difficult to date)
Story of
Melchizedek (Jewish, 1st–3rd
centuries AD)
Ahiqar (Jewish
dating from late 7th or 6th cent. BC and
cited in
Apocryphal Tobit)...
- standardised. Only the
formularies of the
private do****ents and the
Proverbs of
Ahiqar have
maintained an
older tradition of
sentence structure and style. Imperial...
-
Seminar p. 376 Oshima,
Takayoshi (2017). "How
Mesopotamian was
Ahiqar the Wise? A
Search for
Ahiqar in
Cuneiform Texts". In Berlejung, Angelika; Maeir, Aren...
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other texts six
centuries apart. The
Aramaic collection of wise
sayings by
Ahiqar,
dating from 500 BCE,
mentions that "An ****
which leaves its load and does...
- rulers – in a
section that
appears to
borrow heavily from the
romance of
Ahiqar. The
story ends with Aesop's
journey to Delphi,
where he
angers the citizens...
