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<h2>Welcome</h2> <h2>Welcome</h2>
<p class="body-1"><I>The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition</I> is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and hosted by the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen and the Göttingen State and University Library. It aims at the complete accessibility and indexing of the Ahiqar story in its Syriac and Arabic transmission branches.</p> <p class="body-1"><I>The Story of Ahiqar in its Syriac and Arabic Tradition</I> is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and hosted by both the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen and the Göttingen State and University Library. It aims to index and make accessible the Ahiqar story in its Syriac and Arabic transmission branches.</p>
<p class="body-1"><i>The image on the right is taken from fol. 3v of Ms Hunter Or. 40 (1532). The identity of the four principal figure is given by written their names overhead and alongside. From right to left: Aristotle, Galen, Plato and Ahiqar. At the top of the page, there is written: 'These are the wise who know God: He is the wise the healer'. The image is published by the permission of University of Glasgow Library, Archives & Special Collections.</i></p> <p class="body-1"><i>The image on the right is taken from fol. 3v of Ms Hunter Or. 40 (1532). The identity of the four principal figures is given alongside or above them. From right to left: Aristotle, Galen, Plato and Ahiqar. At the left side, there is written: 'These are the wise who know God: He is the wise the healer'.</i></p>
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## Plot of the Ahiqar story ## Plot of the Ahiqar story
The story of the wise Ahiqar is one of the most frequently edited and reworked tales in the literature of the ancient Near East. Ahiqar also features in the apocryphal Book of Tobit. It describes how the childless Ahiqar (counsellor at the court of the Assyrian kings Sennacherib (reigned 705-681 BCE) and Esarhaddon (reigned 681-669 BCE) adopts and trains his nephew Nadan to be his successor. However, it is Nadan himself who conspires against his uncle to kill him. Ahiqar escaped execution by a trick and emerged from hiding in time to solve a riddle received by the Assyrian king from the Egyptian pharaoh. As a result, his nephew is condemned to death; but Ahiqar, who is reinstated, has the opportunity to lecture Nadan on morality before his nephew dies. The story of the wise Ahiqar is one of the most frequently edited and reworked tales in the literature of the ancient Near East. Ahiqar also features in the apocryphal Book of Tobit. It describes how the childless Ahiqar, counsellor at the court of the Assyrian kings Sennacherib (reigned 705-681 BCE) and Esarhaddon (reigned 681-669 BCE), adopts and trains his nephew Nadan to be Ahiqar's successor. However, it is Nadan himself who conspires against his uncle to kill him. Ahiqar escaped execution by a trick and emerged from hiding in time to solve a riddle received by the Assyrian king from the Egyptian pharaoh. As a result, his nephew is condemned to death; but Ahiqar, who is reinstated, has the opportunity to lecture Nadan on morality before his nephew dies.
## The peculiarity of the Syriac and Arabic versions ## The peculiarity of the Syriac and Arabic versions
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