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100	1		_aBledsoe, Seth, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar : _bUnravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress / _cSeth Bledsoe.
246	3		_aUnravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSupplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; _v199
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAcknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Identifying the Gaps in Ahiqar Scholarship -- 2 Responding to the Gaps in Ahiqar Scholarship -- 3 Outline of This Study -- 1 Locating Ahiqar -- Materiality, Language and Intertextuality -- 1.1 Ahiqar In Situ: Material Aspects -- 1.2 Ahiqar In Lingua: Linguistic and Scribal Aspects -- 1.3 Ahiqar In Litteris: Legacy, Literary Milieu, and Intertextuality -- 1.4 Conclusion: The Elephantine Instruction of Ahiqar -- 2 Unraveling Ahiqar -- Narratology and Discourse in the Story of Ahiqar -- 2.1 Plot Tensions & Resolutions: Unraveling the Structural Threads of the Story -- 2.2 Actants, Voices, and the Narrator/Audience Complexity: A Narratological Reading of Ahiqar -- 2.3 Summary of Literary Analysis of Narrative -- 2.4 Finishing the Story: The Missing End and the Later Witnesses -- 3 Delineating Ahiqar -- Structure and Style in the Sayings of Ahiqar -- 3.1 Sayings-Types, Structures, and Stylistic Devices -- 3.2 Coherence, Context, and Compositional Units: A Theory of Reading and Meaning -- 3.3 Summary of Sayings -- 4 Cultivating an Ethic of Caution -- Practical Instruction and the Dangers of Speech -- 4.1 The Synchrony of Proper Speech -- 4.2 Cultivating a Cautious Attitude -- 4.3 The Pragmatic Value of Contentment and Humility -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 Wisdom from Below -- Financial Instruction and Social Status -- 5.1 Loans and Other Financial Matters -- 5.2 Poverty and Wealth -- 5.3 Labor and Servitude -- 5.4 Wisdom from Below: Synthesis, Story, and Rhetorical Effect -- 6 Constructing and Contesting Social Domains -- The Familial Discourse of Loyalty and Reciprocity -- 6.1 The Double-Sided Domains of Family and Friendship -- 6.2 The Estranged Brother and the Familial Foreigner -- 6.3 Authority & Hierarchy: A Competition for Favor -- 6.4 Conclusion: Constructing and Contesting "Ahiqar" at Elephantine -- 7 Many Are the Stars -- Humanity, the Gods and Speculative Wisdom -- 7.1 Humanity -- 7.2 The Gods -- 7.3 At the Intersection of Humanity and the Gods: The King in Ahiqar -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aThis book offers fresh readings of the Aramaic book of Ahiqar, an oft underappreciated ancient wisdom text. In undertaking a comprehensive literary analysis, incorporating both the drama and the sayings together, Bledsoe shows that Ahiqar's didactic impulse is founded on a sense of uncertainty about life, offering advice for those in times of distress, much like the titular character himself. While Ahiqar shares many features with instructional literature like Proverbs, the ambiguous cosmic and social order imagined in the text resonate more strongly with the likes of Qoheleth or Job. Bledsoe also takes seriously the Elephantine context, suggesting that the social and political ethic evinced by the work would have resonated strongly with the Judean community in Achaemenid Egypt.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aAhikar (Folktale)
650		0	_aWisdom literature _xComparative studies.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar : Unravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022 _z9789004473119 _w(DLC) 2021039882
830		0	_aSupplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; _v199.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004473126
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