Israel's First Physician and Apothecary: Noah and the Origins of Medicine in the Book of Jubilees

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Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI:10.1177/0951820718805635

Chontel Syfox

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Abstract

The book of Jubilees paints Noah as the first physician and apothecary, who received knowledge of natural medicine from the angels of God so that he could save his offspring from the ailments being inflicted upon them by evil spirits. This article examines this aspect of the Noah tradition in the book of Jubilees and attempts to identify its origins. The study considers the potential textual and ideological impetuses behind this tradition, and proposes that attributing the beginning of medical knowledge to Noah may have served to create a licit category of medicine for the author of Jubilees’ intended audience.

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以色列第一位医生和药剂师：诺亚与《朱比利记》中的医学起源

《禧年记》把诺亚描绘成第一个医生和药剂师，他从上帝的天使那里获得了自然药物的知识，这样他就可以把他的后代从邪灵给他们带来的疾病中拯救出来。本文考察了《禧年记》中诺亚传统的这一方面，并试图确定其起源。该研究考虑了这一传统背后潜在的文本和意识形态推动力，并提出将医学知识的开端归因于诺亚可能已经为《禧年》的作者的目标受众创造了一个合法的医学类别。

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0.40

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33.30%

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期刊介绍： The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.