Ahiqar

Achiqar ( Aramaic אחיקר ) or Aba- Enlil - dana ( Assyrian ) is the main character of an Aramaic narrative. He held by a papyrus found in Elephantine from the fifth century BC under Sennacherib the office of royal sealer. Under Sennacherib's successor Esarhaddon he should have acted as a royal adviser, after he passed his office to his adopted son. There are translations and adaptations of the substance in many languages ​​of the Middle East.

Aramaic version

Framework for action

The background story of the history of Achiqar was initiated shortly after the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, and was probably written in the 6th century BC. The collection of sayings was subsequently inserted between the two parts of history. Reflexes of Achiqar - shape found in the deuterocanonical books of Judith and Tobit.

Collection of sayings

The verses and fabulous collection of Achiqar, which was written in the columns 3-16, is much older than the story itself and could be dated because of altaramäischen dialect at the turn of the 8th to 7th century BC. The sayings of the columns 3, 4, 11, 13 and 14 have been lost. The part obtained has, among other parallels to the Akkadian wisdom literature, although no Akkadian vocabulary is noticeable. The tradition is made up of numerous individual awards. An editorial concept seems to have not existed since the editor evidently took advantage of a variety of collections of proverbs.

In addition to parallels to ancient Egyptian literature there is a great proximity to Israeli Jewish wisdom texts. Significantly lower the matching share regarding Mesopotamian sources. The present in the collection of sayings in common with the ancient Egyptian wisdom teaching along with an ancient Egyptian Lehnwortes and remarkably strong influences from the region of Canaan point to an origin from the southern Syrian -Lebanese space.

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