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Updated: May 31, 2025
From the top of mount Nebo, at the point of death, he beheld the land of Jericho, which was to belong to his descendants and the Lord said unto him: "Thou hast seen with thine eyes, yet shalt not pass beyond." You shall pass beyond, Ahasverus; you shall dwell in Jericho.
AHASVERUS. Are you not deceiving me? You, Prometheus? Was that not, then, a figment of the ancient imagination? PROMETHEUS. Look well at me; touch these hands. See whether I really exist. AHASVERUS. Then Moses lied to me. You are Prometheus, creator of the first men? PROMETHEUS. That was my crime. AHASVERUS. Yes, it was your crime, an artifice of hell; your crime was inexpiable.
What you tell me is even better than what Campanella dreamed. In that man's ideal city there were delights and ills; yours excludes all mortal and physical ailments. May the Lord hear you! But let me go and die. PROMETHEUS. Go, go. But why this haste to end your days? AHASVERUS. The haste of a man who has lived for thousands of years. Yes, thousands of years.
See Lidzbarski, "Wer ist Chadir?" Zeits. f. Assyr. vii. 109-112, who also suggests that Ahasverus, 'the Wandering Jew, is a corruption of Adrakhasis. This suggests a comparison with Sadu, 'the hunter, in the Gilgamesh epic. See above, p. 475. Originally suggested by H. C. Rawlinson. The ending ôn is an emphatic affix frequent in proper names. Euripides' Herakles, Einleitung.
Evil will end; the winds will thenceforth scatter neither the germs of death nor the clamor of the oppressed, but only the song of love everlasting and the benediction of universal justice.... AHASVERUS. What can all this posthumous joy matter to the species that dies with me? Believe me, you who are immortal, to the bones that rot in the earth the purples of Sidonia are worthless.
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