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Encyclopedia Britannica



ACHIACHARUS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 143 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACHIACHARUS , a name occurring in the
book
  of Tobit (i. 21 f.) as that of a
nephew
  of Tobit and an official at the
court
  of Esarhaddon at Nineveh. There are references in Rumanian, Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic and Syriac literature to a legend, of which the hero is Ahikar (for Armenian, Arabic and Syriac, see The Story of Ahikar, F. C. Conybeare, Rendel Harris and Agnes
Lewis
 , Camb. 1898), and it was pointed out by George
Hoffmann
  in 188o that this Ahikar and the Achiacharus of Tobit are identical. It has been contended that there are traces of the legend even in the New Testament, and there is a striking similarity between it and the
Life
  of
Aesop
  by Maximus Planudes (ch. xxiii.-xxxii.). An eastern sage Achaicarus is mentioned by
Strabo
 . It would seem, therefore, that the legend was undoubtedly oriental in origin, though the relationship of the various versions can scarcely be recovered.
See the Jewish Encyclopaedia and the Encyclopaedia Biblica; also M. R. James in The Guardian, Feb. 2, 1898, p. 163 f.


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