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

The Ahiqar project thrives on collaboration and welcomes open contributions from scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike. If you have TEI-encoded text sources—whether newly transcribed fragments, translations, or critical editions—we’d love to include them in our growing digital collection. Each contribution enriches the project, making these ancient texts more accessible and interconnected for researchers and readers worldwide. Whether you’re sharing a single manuscript or a curated set of materials, your work will appear on our website with proper attribution, helping to build a dynamic, community-driven resource. Have something to add? You can encode your source material as described in the edition guidelines. We also offer a minimal TEI example which you can enhance and alter to your own need. We’d be happy to discuss how your materials can become part of the Ahiqar corpus.

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

Dr. 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

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

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