A fragment of a hypothetical prototype of the book In the Beginning (ProtoBereshit), supposedly composed in 1609-1583 BC in northern Egypt. According to our hypothesis, in the work of fiction, an unknown physician-encyclopedist for the first time pointed out damage to the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) as a cause of gait disturbance. See our commentary at the link: 1609-1583bcProtoBereshit [Rus] & The Shortest Comments on Genesis, Chap. XXXII-XXXIII .
Quote
[Egy?]
«ProtoBereshit»
… the original text is lost …
Translation
[Eng]
«ProtoBereshit»
and the sun riseth on him when he hath passed over Penuel, and he is
halting on his thigh … , because He came against the hollow of Jacob's thigh,
against the sinew which shrank. (our reconstruction based
on 1898YoungR, p. 23)
External links
Young R (Trans.) The Holy Bible, Consisting Of The Old And New Covenants, … Revised Edition. Edinburgh: G.A. Young
& Co., Bible publishers, 1898. [archive.org]
Authors & Affiliations
Unknown co-author (Imhotep the Younger?, ca. 1650-1550 BC) was an Egyptian
or West Asian physician, encyclopedist, medical writer, who worked in northern
Egypt during the rule of the Hyksos. [books.google]
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Wise man Imhotep (1st mill. BC) Bronze sculpture in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow); photograph by the author. |
Keywords
ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, Bible, Torah, damage, injury, symptom
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