On Ahiqar

READING ACTS: Who was Ahikar? (Phil Long). Not mentioned in the post, but (we infer from his name that) Ahiqar was an Aramean (i.e., an Aramaic-speaking Syrian) in the original story. So the Ahiqar story is still in the genre of the sage in the court of a foreign (Assyrian) king.

I linked to an earlier version of Phil's essay here. A couple of other PaleoJudaica posts on Ahiqar are here and here.

Ahiqar outwits the King of Egypt
By Henry Justice Ford - http://www.darklanecreative.com/blog/artists-for-an-antiquary-mr-james-and-his-illustrators, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47525642

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