The Elephantine Ahiqar: A New Edition and Commentary with Special Reference to Babylonian and Hebrew Wisdom Literature

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Price, Robert
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The present study is concerned with the text, origin, and relation to Hebrew and Akkadian Wisdom Literature of the oldest extant version of the story and teaching of Ahiqar, a learned official of the Assyrian court who, through the machinations of his foster son, nearly lost his life, but in the end recovered his former glories.

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Moshe Held
Frank Zimmerman
Solomon Zeitlin
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1965
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Library at the Katz Center - Archives Thesis. PJ5209 .P753 1965, c.1-c.2.
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