Talk:Story of Ahikar

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"Aramean"

What is this nonsense? Ahiqar was an Assyrian sage, and his Assyrian name was Aba-Enlil-dari. He was the counsellor to Sennacherib (Sanherib) and also to Assarhaddon (Esarhaddon). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemliganonym (talk • contribs) 11:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What is your source?

Ahiqar, Ahuqar or Ahikar was an Aramean sage known in the ancient Near East for his outstanding wisdom. The Story of Ahikar, also known as the Words of Ahikar, has been found in an Aramaic papyrus of 500 B.C. among the ruins of Elephantine.

Under his Aramean name, Ahiqar, he became famous as the author of a series of wisdom texts written in Aramaic. Grayson 1991, in CAH III/2:132. Who’s Who in the Ancient Near East.

The Aramean name of Ahiqar, transcribed Aba-Enlil-dari in Sumerian. The name Aba-Enlil-dari is Sumerian and NOT "Assyrian"! The Akkadian name of Ahiqar is Mannu-kīma-Enlil-ḫātin. Source: Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem Story, History and Historiography, Edited by Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson Link: http://www.academia.edu/1826739/_Memories_of_Sennacherib_in_Aramaic_Tradition._Pp._295-323_in_Sennacherib_at_the_Gates_of_Jerusalem_701_B.C.E._Story_History_and_Historiography_ed._Isaac_Kalimi_and_Seth_Richardson._Culture_and_History_of_the_Ancient_Near_East_71._Leiden_Brill_2014

Interestingly, the Aḥiqar story may be open to seeing Sennacherib as more sympathetic to Aḥiqar and Arameans, an ethnic minority in Mesopotamia. It is possible that Sennacherib’s wife Naqia (Naqqiˀā, “pure one”), the mother of Esarhaddon, was of Aramaic origin, since she had a West Semitic name with an Assyrian translation Zaqutu. (Source: Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem Story, History and Historiography, Edited by Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson/Book page 306)

It is already present, outside the Bible,in the tale of the wise Ahiqar, an Aramaean who served under the Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon and who triumphed over adversity to become the vizier under the name of Mannu-kima-Enlil-hatin (Aba-NINNU-dari) and to bequeath many wise sayings to posterity. Source: The First Purm by Willam W. Hallo (Page 25) Link: http://www.andrews.edu/sem/inministry/uploads/2014coursesyllabi/the_first_purim-hallo.pdf