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According to Near Eastern traditions, '''Ahiqar / Ahikar''' was an Assyrian sage, whose deeds and sayings are narrated in the [[Story of Ahiqar]].

==Overview==

The narrative says that Ahikar was chancellor to the Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon. Having no child, he adopted his nephew Nadab/Nadin, who ungratefully plotted against him. Ahiqar survived the ordeal and was rehabilitated. 

Ahiqar is a well known figure in the literatures of the entire ancient Middle East (including Greece), and penetrated Jewish culture as well. A copy of the [[Story of Ahiqar]] was found in the ruins of the Jewish [[Temple of Elephantine]]. In later times, in the [[Book of Tobit]], it became possible to imagine Ahiqar (Achiacharus) as a Jew, the nephew of [[Tobit]], serving (like [[Nehemiah]] or [[Daniel]]) at the court of the foreign king in Mesopotamia. 

== Ahiqar in ancient sources ==

*[[Ahiqar (sources)]] -- survey of ancient sources

==References==

*'''Ahiqar''' / [[Jerome A. Lund]] / In: [[Dictionary of New Testament Background (2000 Evans & Porter), dictionary]], 18-19

*'''Ahikar/Ahiqar''' / [[James C. VanderKam]] / In: [[The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary]], 1:113-115

==External links==

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahiqar Wikipedia] -- [http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/ahiqar.html Early Jewish Writings]


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