| LC control no. | n 82120489 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Ahikar (Folktale) |
| Variant(s) | 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 |
| Form of work | Wisdom literature |
| Special note | Use only for added entries for the basic story under provisions of AA25.12; each individual work is entered under its own author or title |
| Found in | His The story of Ahikar, 1898. Meissner, B. Das Märchen vom weisen Achigar, 1917. Lindenberger, J. The Aramaic proverbs of Ahiqar, 1983: CIP t.p. (Ahiqar) Ency. of rel. and ethics, 1926 (Aḥiqār, Aḥikār) Dict. of orient. lit., 1974 (Achikar (Achiacharus)) Jewish ency., 1916 (Aḥiḳar, Akikarus, Achiakarus, Akicharus, Accicar) Histoire et sagesse d'Ahikar l'Assyrien (fils d'Anael, neveu de Tobie), 1909 Enc. Brit., 15th ed.: v. 1, p. 151 (Ahikar, the story of; a folktale of either Babylonian or Persian origin; classified as pseudepigraphal; a considerable no. of translations indicate that the story was immensely popular in antiquity) New Cath. enc., 1967: v. 1, p. 222 (Ahikar (Achior); hero of story found in several forms and in many places in the ancient Near East) Old Testament pseudepigrapha, 1983: v. 1, p. 479-493 (Ahiqar; text known as the Words of Ahiqar; in 2 parts: the story of Ahiqar, wise scribe and counselor to the kings of Assyria; and the wisdom of Ahiqar, a collection of slightly over a hundred aphorisms, riddles, fables, instructions and brief sayings of various kinds) Mishle Aḥiḳar ha-Arami ṿe-sifrut ha-ḥokhmah ba-Miḳra, 1989. The wisdom of the Aramaic book of Ahiqar, 2021,©2021: title page (the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar) page 1 (the Book of Ahiqar; the tale of Ahiqar) |
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