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This is the first study to compare the allusions to scribal culture
found in the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the Hebrew Tale of
Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll in Jeremiah 36. It is shown that
disguised in the royal propagandistic message of Ahiqar is a
sophisticated Aramaic critique on the social practices of Akkadian
scribal culture. Jeremiah 36, however, uses loci of scribal
activity as well as allusions to scribal interactions and the
techniques of the scribal craft to construct a subversive tale.
When studied from a comparative perspective it is argued that the
Story of Ahiqar, which has long been associated with the well-known
court tale genre, is an example of a subgenre which is here called
the scribal conflict narrative, and Jeremiah 36 is found to be a
second example of or a response to it. This observation is arrived
at by means of rigorous manuscript examination combined with
narrative analysis, which identified, among other things, the
development of autobiographical and biographical styles of the same
ancient narrative. This study not only provides new perspectives on
scribal culture, Ahiqar studies, and Jeremiah studies, but it may
have far reaching implications for other ancient sources.
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