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Art. XIII.—Contributions to the History of Aḥiḳar and Nadan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

M. Gaster
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The history of Aḥiḳar and his nephew Nadan forms part of Eastern popular literature. When publishing my history of Roumanian popular literature seventeen years ago (Bucureesti, 1883) I devoted a special chapter to the Roumanian versions of this history (pp. 104–114). I was the first to recognize the connection between the Roumanian and Slavonic versions and those contained in the Arabian Nights. I then drew attention to the intimate relation between this legend and that which has entered the Greek life of Æsop. Since that time scholars have paid much attention to this legend, especially as through Meissner's studies it is being considered as one of the lost Apocrypha mentioned already in the Book of Tobit.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1900 , pp. 301 - 319
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1900

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References

page 302 note 1 The references in parentheses are to the Slavonic version in the above publication of Conybeare, etc.

page 316 note 1 v. Tendlau, “Spruchwörter Deutsch-juedischer Vorzeit,” No. 858.