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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以色列的第一位医师和药剂师：挪亚与禧年书中的医学起源

禧年书将诺亚描绘成第一位医师和药剂师，他从上帝的天使那里获得了自然医学的知识，以便他可以拯救自己的后代，免受邪恶之灵给他们带来的疾病。本文在禧年书中考察了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的潜在文本和意识形态推动力，并提出将医学知识的起源归因于诺亚可能为禧年的预定读者创造了合法的医学类别。