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The monograph The Ninth Month, Eleventh Day [Rus] is dedicated to the oldest mention of LCF injury and the fate of the first patient with this pathology.

Arkhipov S.V. The Ninth Month, Eleventh Day: A Reflection on Chapter XXXII of the Book of Genesis. Joensuu: Author’s Edition, 2024.

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The narrative in the Book of Genesis about the struggle between Patriarch Jacob and God is a retelling of a dream. Our opinion is based on the assessment of the legend from a medical point of view. Analysis of the text, taking into account reliable information, showed that the first version was written almost 3,600 years ago in Egypt. Two writers worked on the work. One, a physician-encyclopedist, supplemented the family tales of the co-author with duplicates of literary characters and scientific facts. This addition rendered the biblical epic believable in the eyes of contemporaries. Later, the artistically processed dream became a key circumstance of the doctrines of the largest religions. Who needed this and why is not discussed. Most of the mysteries of the Old Testament myth were rationally explained. It remains unclear how the brilliant doctor identified damage to the ligament of the hip joint in Patriarch Jacob. A reliable method for diagnosing this injury, which leads to incurable osteoarthritis, is still unknown.

The monograph is addressed to medical workers and supporters of atheism

Dedicated to my mother,

wise, warm-hearted, beloved.

Arkhipova (Molchanova) Zinaida Evgenievna

Synopsis

The preface briefly narrates the history of the book's development, providing an overview of the discussed events in the Book of Genesis and introducing the main character, Patriarch Jacob.

Chapter 1 outlines essential information about the origin of the text and its early translations. It presents the author's hypothesis that the first version of Genesis was written in Ancient Egypt during the 17th-16th centuries BCE and traces its subsequent evolution in the land of modern-day Israel.

Chapter 2 provides a timeline, dating the life of Abraham (a contemporary of Hammurabi’s son), the migration of Jacob's family to Egypt (following the eruption of the Santorini volcano), the birth of his son Joseph, the "global flood," and the expulsions of Cain, Adam, and Eve (events of the Paleolithic era).

Chapter 3 examines Jacob's life and the injury he sustained, arguing that his brother Esau (depicted with a congenital anomaly) is a fictional character inspired by Enkidu from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.

Chapters 4 and 5 reconstruct and date (1633 BCE) the only plausible migration route of Jacob's family from Haran (modern Turkey) to present-day Israel. These chapters highlight clearly fabricated episodes and inconsistencies in the Biblical timeline.

Chapter 6 recounts the author’s expedition to Jordan, during which an ancient ford over the Jabbok River (Zarqa) mentioned in the Bible was discovered. This ford was reportedly used by figures from both the Old and New Testaments. According to legend, it is where the Jewish people received the name "Israel."

Chapter 7 explains that Jacob's struggle with an angel was a dream of a creatively gifted individual from the Bronze Age. The theological and clerical interpretations of this Biblical episode are shown to be speculative readings of the dream.

Chapter 8 focuses on the anatomy of the hip joint, specifically the "sinew of the thigh," as described in Genesis. It concludes that knowledge of this anatomical feature and its injuries originated in Ancient Egypt, showcasing the country's advanced medical expertise. It is stated that the commandment prohibiting the consumption of the ligament of the thigh of an animal is not applicable. Jews and Muslims observe a ritual that is essentially unrelated to religion.

Chapter 9 explores how Jacob might have injured his hip while crossing the river. The author's viewpoint is supported and illustrated through experiments with mechanical models.

Chapter 10 explains why Jacob developed a limp after his injury. Ancient Egyptian texts suggest that the precise cause of his limp and the resulting hip disease was known 3,600 years ago. The chapter speculates how an ancient physician could diagnose Jacob’s injury and why this medical knowledge was embedded in the story—to preserve the discovery for future generations. Alongside this analysis, experiments and illustrations emphasize the critical role of the hip's ligament and demonstrate the mechanics of injury during walking. The author encourages readers to care for their hip joints.

Chapter 11 briefly reviews various artistic and poetic interpretations of Jacob’s struggle with the angel.

The epilogue emphasizes the historicity of the main character. It is concluded that the Book of Genesis was written to exalt the Hyksos official. The text incorporates archaic ideas about the physical world, evolution, anatomy, and physiology. Genesis is classified as a literary work, akin to an ancient encyclopedia. Given its datable elements, the knowledge it conveys can be included in literary reviews, excluding the identified mythical aspects. The discussed text underpins the doctrines of the three largest religions. While the question of who needed this and why is left unanswered, the author hopes readers will reflect on the irrationality of constructing theological doctrines on dreams and hallucinations.

Contents

Пресловие

Глава 1. Создание и переводы Библии

Глава 2. Датировка ветхозаветной истории

Глава 3. Житие Патриарха Иакова

Глава 4. География Ветхозаветного похода

Глава 5. Путешествие из Харрана в Маханаим

Глава 6. Переход через Иавок

Глава 7. Сновидение Патриарха Иакова

Глава 8. Жила состава бедра

Глава 9. Повреждение, но не поражение

Глава 10. И хромал он на бедро свое

Глава 11. Сюжет в зеркале искусства

Послесловие

Приложение 1. Датировка событий жизни Патриарха Иакова

Приложение 2. Предание Патриарха Иакова

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Author:

Arkhipov S.V. – candidate of medical sciences, surgeon, traumatologist-orthopedist.

Citation:

Архипов С.В. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день: Рассуждение о XXXII главе книги Бытие; 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Йоэнсуу: Издание Автора, 2024.

Arkhipov, S.V. The Ninth Month, Eleventh Day: A Reflection on Chapter XXXII of the Book of Genesis. 2nd ed., revised and expanded. Joensuu: Author’s Edition, 2024. [Rus]

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Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, history, first patient, symptoms, injury, damage, synonyms

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1802PalmeraniÁ

Palmerani Á , drawing Jacob wrestling with the angel (1802 ). Depicting the circumstances and mechanism of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) injury based on the description in the Book of Genesis: 25 And Ja cob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 26 And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck against the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was put out of joint, as he was wrestling with him. … 33 Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew that shrank. ( 1922LeeserI , Genesis (Bereshit) 32:25-26,33) More about the plot in our work: Ninth month, eleventh day ( 2024 АрхиповСВ. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день ). Ángel Palmerani – Jacob Wrestling with the Angel ( 1802); original in the a...

Human LCF intersection

HUMAN LCF INTERSECTION In the south of China, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the archaeological Neolithic site of Dingsishan was investigated. Burials of 355 people were found in this place. The authors of the article (2024YeZ_LiFJ) identified 91 skeletons with traces of manipulations with the remains. They are attributed to burials of the Dingsishan III-IV phase, aged 8.0-4.5 thousand years. 13 notches were found on the proximal part of various femurs. « Cutmarks on the femoral head, neck and intertrochanteric line, as well as along the medial linea aspera of the femoral shaft, suggest that soft tissue around the hip, including the iliofemoral ligament and the iliacus and adductor muscles, was severed to disarticulate the joint.» This and other postmortem bone injuries «... suggests that corpse treatment at Dingsishan included disarticulation » (2024YeZ_LiFJ). Figure 4 of the cited article shows the distribution and direction of cutmarks on human skeletons from Dingx...

1614PagniniS

Content [i] Annotation [ii] Original text (in Latin) [iii] English translation [iv] Source & links [v] Notes [vi] Authors & Affiliations [vii] Keywords [i] Annotation Fragment from the book: Pagnini S. Thesaurus linguae sanctae, sive lexicon hebraicum (1614, Vol. 1). The author examines the translation into Latin of the term denoting ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) in Hebrew biblical texts. The text in Russian is available at the following link: 1614PagniniS . [ii] Original text (in Latin) Quote, p. 392 ניר est Neruus Genesis 32.32 Idcirco non comedent (pro, comedunt) filij Israel ניר את neruum. Et Iesah 48.4 וניד & nerruus serreus ceruix tua: vel, secundum Rab. Dair. & virga ferrea: sic appellate, quòd nerui sint ceruice בניד in neruo Genes. 32.32. Iech 37.6. Et dabo super vos צירים neruos. Ijob 10. II ossibusq;...

1140St.Marie-Madeleine

Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene of Vézelay, capital s – Jacob with the Angel (1125 – 1140). Depicting the circumstances and mechanism of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) injury based on the description in the Book of Genesis: 25 And Ja cob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 26 And when he saw that he could not pre vail against him, he struck against the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was put out of joint, as he was wrestling with him. … 33 Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew that shrank. ( 1922LeeserI , Genesis (Bereshit) 32:25-26,33) More about the plot in our work: Ninth month, eleventh day ( 2024 АрхиповСВ. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день ). Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene of Vézelay (1125 – 1140). Capital (...

2003IvanovYV

Ivanov YV, panel, wood carving – Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (2003). Variant of depicting the circumstances and mechanism of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) injury based on the description in the Book of Genesis: 25 And Ja cob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 26 And when he saw that he could not pre vail against him, he struck against the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was put out of joint, as he was wrestling with him. … 33 Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew that shrank. ( 1922LeeserI , Genesis (Bereshit) 32:25-26,33) More about the plot in our work: Ninth month, eleventh day ( 2024 АрхиповСВ. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день ). Ivanov Yuri Vitalievich – Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (2003); im...

The First Scientific Mention

European science has known the LCF for about 2500 years. It is the most important functional connection of the hip joint. The first person to describe the LCF was Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BCE). A written mention of the LCF is found in §1 of his treatise "On the Instrument of redactions". In our opinion, a book created in the library of the Asclepeion of the island of Kos. Hippocrates did not dissection of the human body, did not operate on the hip joint, did not have a CT scan and MRI. How he could discover the LCF? In our view, it is possible that Hippocrates treated a patient with an open hip dislocation. Track Music: Blue Dot Sessions , Vittoro (CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED / fragment) keywords: ligamentum capitis femoris, ligament of head of femur, ligamentum teres, hip dislocation . ...

80-58bcApollonius Citiensis

Fragment from the treatise Apollonius Citiensis Commentary on the Hippocrates’ book On Joints ( Περὶ αρθρων π ραγματεὶα , 80-58 BC). The author notes the possibility of damage to the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) during hip dislocation. See our commentary at the link: 80-58bcApollonius Citiensis [Rus], and 2020ArkhipovSV_ProlyginaIV . Quote. [Grc] Περὶ αρθρων π ραγματεὶα . Βιβλιον γ ʹ . (original source: 1965KolleschJ_KudlienF, pp. 86, 88) Translation [Eng] Commentary On Joints ( Commentary on the Hippocrates’ book On Joints). Book 3. If the dislocated and displaced hip could not remain in place, then the physician [Hippocrates] would have clearly indicated the incurability of this case, so that we would not be led astray. Don't those who hold the opposite opinion know about the nature of joints, ligaments and the teachings about these things in general? After all, the physician considered the cause of the mild or, on the contrary, complex displacement and ...

1899ParsonsFG

An excerpt from the article by Parsons FG. The joints of mammals compared with those of man: a course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1899, pp. 301-306). The paper discusses the anatomy and presence of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) in different animals. The author found in an experiment that in kangaroos, the LCF was stretched during hip extension. Below we publish an excerpt from the abstract and a critique of the lecture in the Lancet. THEJOINTS OF MAMMALS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF MAN: A COUBSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. By F. G. PARSONS, F.R.C.S., late Hunterian Professor. PART II.-JOINTS OF THE HIND LIMB. THE HIP JOINT. SOME of the chief points which attract attention in the hip joint of man are the three thickened parts of the capsule called the ilio-femoral, ischio-femoral, and pubo-femoral ligaments, as well as the intra-articular ligamentum teres running from the bottom of the ac...

Homo antecessor. Hip disarticulation

HOMO ANTECESSOR. Hip disarticulation Postmortem separation of the leg from the pelvis in individuals of own species was performed by our evolutionary predecessors. In particular, this was done in the Homo antecessor community, which practiced cannibalism (2003TuttC). Ferna Y. et al. (1999) described evidence of intentional crushing of the femur diaphysis in a young individual (ATD6-76), presumably to extract bone marrow. The bone retained traces of not only several impacts by a striker, but also of an anvil on which the bone lay. The age of the said find in the Gran Dolina cave (Spain) is estimated at about 780 thousand years (1999FernaY_RosellJ). The above features indicate that the femur was initially separated from the soft tissues. In the second stage, the butcher had to use a stone tool to cut the muscles and strong external ligaments of the hip joint. In the next stage, he tore, or perhaps cut off, the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) to mobilize the hip and further manipul...

Vertebrates

VERTEBRATES According to the molecular clock, a specific method for dating phylogenetic events, vertebrates (Vertebrata) separated from arthropods (Arthropoda) 976±97 Ma (2004HedgesSB_ShoeJL). The latter began to dominate in species diversity with the Cambrian burst of radiation, which occurred 520 Ma (2010EdgecombeGD). This ratio in the fauna of the Earth is still preserved. Approximately 525 Ma, the phylum Chordates separated from the group of bilaterally symmetrical animals (1995ChenJY_ZhouGQ). In turn, the evolution of chordate organisms led to the formation of the first vertebrates at least 500 Ma, from which the jawed mouths 450-400 Ma descended, becoming the ancestors of the placoderms or "armored" fish (Placodermi) (1979 НаумовНП _ КарташевНН ). Sculptural reconstruction of the placoderm Coccosteus from the order Arthrodires, Middle Devonian, 393.3-382.7 Ma ; exposition of the Orlov Paleontological Museum (Moscow); photo by the author. The first cartilaginou...

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