The Bramble and the Pomegranate (from The Words of Ahiqar)
The [bram]ble sent a message to the pomegranate as follows: “Dear Pomegranate, what good are all [your] thorns [to him who tou]ches your [fru]it?” The [pome] granate replied to the bramble, “You are nothing but thorns to him who [tou]ches you!”
Notes
Restorations are enclosed in brackets. Italic type indicates words whose meaning is uncertain.
[For more selections from this work, see The Words of Ahiqar.—Eds.]
Credits
The Bramble and the Pomegranate (The Words of Ahiqar), in James M. Lindenberger, trans., “Ahiqar,” from The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, ed. James H. Charlesworth (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, LLC, 2011), vol. 2, p. 506. Published by arrangement with Yale University Press.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
