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

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 bo...

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主要作者: Syfox, Chontel (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: [2018]
In: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2018, 卷: 28, 發布: 1, Pages: 3-23
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Liber iubilaeorum / Noach, 聖經人物 / 物理学家 / 藥劑師 / 醫學
IxTheo Classification:HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Medicine
B Disease
B Healing
B Jubilees
B Second Temple Judaism
B Noah
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總結: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.
ISSN:1745-5286
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0951820718805635