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''' Jean Astruc''' (1684 | ''' 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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*[[Conjectures sur les mémoires originaux dont il paroit que Moyse s'est servi pour composer le livre de la Genèse (1753 Astruc), book]] | *[[Conjectures sur les mémoires originaux dont il paroit que Moyse s'est servi pour composer le livre de la Genèse (1753 Astruc), book]] | ||
== | ==Biography== | ||
*[ | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Astruc Wikipedia.en] -- [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Astruc Wikipedia.de] -- [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Astruc Wikipedia.fr] -- [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Astruc Wikipedia.it] -- [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Astruc Wikipedia.es] | ||
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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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