Ahiqar
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About

This historical-critical edition of the Syriac and Arabic Ahiqar texts is a project funded by the German Research Foundation. It is hosted by the Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen and by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB). The texts were encoded by the researchers using the TextGrid Lab. The SUB Technical Team developed and provided a TEI schema and advised on encoding. For the technical realization of the Digital Edition, a generic TextAPI was developed to deliver the data and the TIDO Viewer to display the data.

Contribution welcome

Would you like to contribute additional texts to our digital edition? We welcome your interest! Our infrastructure is designed to be extendable, and we are happy to hear from you if you would like to contribute suitable material. Please note:
For technical reasons, we can only accept data in a specific format. Unfortunately, we are not able to adapt other formats. Also, since the original project funding has ended, we cannot currently commit to a specific timeline for integration. Feel free to get in touch to discuss the details!

Management

General

  • Prof. Dr. Reinhard G. Kratz (Faculty of Theology of the University of Göttingen)
  • Prof. Dr. Sebastian Günther (Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the University of Göttingen)

Technical

Zeki Mustafa Doğan (Head of Digital Library, Göttingen State and University Library)

Team

Arabic and Karshuni Edition

Dr. Aly Elrefaei (Faculty of Theology)

Syriac Edition

Simon Birol (Faculty of Theology)

Technical

Staff listed are members of SUB Göttingen

  • Tillmann Dönicke
  • Mathias Goebel
  • Kay Liewald
  • Orlin Malkja
  • Paul Pestov
  • Rafael Maria Raschkowski
  • Kristine Schima-Voigt
  • Michelle Weidling

Consulting

  • PD Dr. Ingo Kottsieper (Faculty of Theology of the University of Münster, Research Center Qumran Digital of the Academy of Science Göttingen)
  • Prof. Dr. Daniel Kölligan
  • Rok Kunter
  • Dr. Helen Younansardaroud
  • Dr. Nicholas al-Jeloo

Staff listed are members of SUB Göttingen

  • Uwe Sikora
  • Christian Mahnke
  • Service for Digital Editions

Contact

Faculty of Theology

Department of Old Testament Studies

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2

reinhard.kratz@theologie.uni-goettingen.de

reinhard.mueller@theologie.uni-goettingen.de

Sarah.Schulz@theologie.uni-goettingen.de

Aly Elrefaei

For the Arabic Versions

aly.elrefaei@theologie.uni-goettingen.de

Simon Birol

For the Syriac Versions

birol@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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