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This book offers fresh readings of the Aramaic book of Ahiqar, an oft underappreciated ancient wisdom text. In undertaking a comprehensive literary analysis, incorporating both the drama and the sayings together, Bledsoe shows that Ahiqar's didactic impulse is founded on a sense of uncertainty about life, offering advice for those in times of distress, much like the titular character himself. While Ahiqar shares many features with instructional literature like Proverbs, the ambiguous cosmic and social order imagined in the text resonate more strongly with the likes of Qoheleth or Job. Bledsoe also takes seriously the Elephantine context, suggesting that the social and political ethic evinced by the work would have resonated strongly with the Judean community in Achaemenid Egypt.

Ahikar (Folktale) --- Wisdom literature --- Comparative studies --- Literature --- 229*228 --- 229*228 Achiqar-roman --- Achiqar-roman --- Achigar (Folktale) --- Aḥīqār (Folktale) --- Achior (Folktale) --- Achikar (Folktale) --- Achiacharus (Folktale) --- Akikarus (Folktale) --- Achiakarus (Folktale) --- Akicharus (Folktale) --- Accicar (Folktale) --- Archirie (Folktale) --- Haikar (Folktale) --- Haykar (Folktale) --- Heykar (Folktale) --- Khikar (Folktale) --- Words of Ahiqar (Folktale) --- Story of Ahikar (Folktale) --- Mishle Aḥiḳar --- Book of Ahiqar

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Among the few allusions to mid-first millennium BCE scribal culture are the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the Hebrew Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll (Jeremiah 36). This study provides a novel interpretation of both tales and proposes a newly identified literary subgenre to which they belong by studying the sources independently for their allusions to scribal culture and comparatively for their literary features.

Bible. Old Testament --- Periodicals --- Scribes, Jewish --- Jews --- 224.3 --- 224.3 Jeremias. Lamentationes. Klaagliederen --- 224.3 Jeremie. Lamentations de Jeremie --- Jeremias. Lamentationes. Klaagliederen --- Jeremie. Lamentations de Jeremie --- Sofer --- Soferim --- Sofrim --- Sopher --- Sopherim --- Sophrim --- Judaism --- History --- Functionaries --- Bible. --- Ahikar (Folktale) --- Achigar (Folktale) --- Aḥīqār (Folktale) --- Achior (Folktale) --- Achikar (Folktale) --- Achiacharus (Folktale) --- Akikarus (Folktale) --- Achiakarus (Folktale) --- Akicharus (Folktale) --- Accicar (Folktale) --- Archirie (Folktale) --- Haikar (Folktale) --- Haykar (Folktale) --- Heykar (Folktale) --- Khikar (Folktale) --- Words of Ahiqar (Folktale) --- Story of Ahikar (Folktale) --- Mishle Aḥiḳar --- Book of Ahiqar --- Jeremiabuch --- Jeremiah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Jérémie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Livre de Jérémie --- Yirmeyah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yirmeyahu (Book of the Old Testament) --- Jews. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- 586 B.C.-70 A.D.