The story of Ahikar has appeared in various forms and numerous languages over the course of the last two and a half millennia. Long known to readers of the Arabian Nights, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that scholars began to suspect that the legend had semi-biblical origins. Cambridge University Press had already published the first edition of The Story of Ahikar in 1898 when an enlarged and corrected second edition was prompted by the discovery of a series of Aramaic papyrus fragments on the island of Elephantiné, dating from the fifth century before Christ. It is the second edition of The Story of Ahikar, first published in 1913, which is reproduced here. Meticulously assembled, this edition contains the Armenian, Old Turkish, Syriac, and Arabic versions of the story in their original source language with accompanying English translations. Also included are translations of the Slavonic, Ethiopic, and Aramaic versions, as well as fragments of the sayings and parables of Ahikar and the Greek text of the story.

Story of Ahikar

Religion & Spirituality

F. C. Conybeare

J. Redel Harris

Agnes Smith Lewis

Buddhism

Cambridge University Press

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.  Novel and biography are joined in this literary work with a historical core. Philostratus' life of the first century mystic from Tyana was written at the request of the empress Julia Domna. It portrays a man with supernatural powers, a Pythagorean who predicts the future, cures the sick, raises the dead, and himself prevails over death, ascending to heaven and later appearing to disciples to prove his immortality. The account has a rich and varied setting: Apollonius' ministering carries him throughout the eastern Mediterranean world, as far south as Ethiopia, and eastward to India. Philostratus' Life of Apollonius was long viewed by Christians as a dangerous attempt to set up a Christ-like rival. This two-volume edition of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana includes, in the second volume, a collection of Apollonius' letters and a treatise by the Christian bishop and historian Eusebius attacking Apollonius as a charlatan. Also available by Philostratus 'the Athenian' in the Loeb Classical Library is his Lives of the Sophists, a treasury of information about notable sophists that yields a good picture of the predominant influence of Sophistic in the educational, social, and political life of the Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: Volume I. Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library No. 16)

Literature & Fiction

Philostratus

Flavius Philostratus

History & Criticism

Loeb Classical Library

Selections from the Septuagint: According to the Text of Swete

St. George William Joseph, Stock

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare St George William Joseph Stock Henry Barclay Swete

History

Nabu Press

Often cited but difficult to locate, the essays contained in this five volume set had a profound influence on the development of textual criticism and its acceptance in England.  Dating from a period when textual criticism was still controversial, these essays have not lost their ability to stimulate academic debate on the wide variety of documents covered.

Studies in Biblical and Patristic Criticism: or Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica Vol. 4 of 5

W.M.Ramsay

E L Hicks

Gorgias Pr Llc

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