F. C. Conybeare – författare

The story of Ahikar has appeared in various forms and numerous languages over the course of the last two and a half millennia. Long known to readers of the Arabian Nights, it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that scholars began to suspect that the legend had semi-biblical origins. Cambridge University Press had already published the first edition of The Story of Ahikar in 1898 when an enlarged and corrected second edition was prompted by the discovery of a series of Aramaic papyrus fragments on the island of Elephantiné, dating from the fifth century before Christ. It is the second edition of The Story of Ahikar, first published in 1913, which is reproduced here. Meticulously assembled, this edition contains the Armenian, Old Turkish, Syriac, and Arabic versions of the story in their original source language with accompanying English translations. Also included are translations of the Slavonic, Ethiopic, and Aramaic versions, as well as fragments of the sayings and parables of Ahikar and the Greek text of the story.

An excellent translation follows a critical essay, which argues that the Christian elements of the text do not point to a Christian author, but rather indicate that this work is a Christian recension of a Graeco-Jewish original.

El Testamento de Salomón, muy valorado por los practicantes y estudiosos del ocultismo, es un texto compuesto pseudoepigráfico atribuido al rey Salomón, pero no considerado como escritura canónica por los judíos o los grupos cristianos. Fue escrito en lengua griega, basándose en precedentes que se remontan a principios del primer milenio, pero probablemente no se completó en ningún sentido textual significativo hasta algún momento del periodo medieval. En sus recensiones más notables, el texto describe cómo Salomón pudo construir su templo ordenando a los demonios por medio de un anillo mágico que le confió el arcángel Miguel.