Jean Astruc (1684-1766), scholar

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Jean Astruc

Jean Astruc (Sauves, Auvergne, France, 19 March 1684 – Paris, France, 5 May 1766) was a French scholar. A renowned professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, he was also attracted by problems of biblical criticism. In order to defend the Mosaic authenticity of the Book of Genesis, he identified four documents (or Memoirs) which he claimed Moses wrote and were then combined into a single work by a later editor. Astruc was the first scholar to argue what would become known as the Documentary Hypothesis.

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