6c.Vienna_Genesis

Miniature Jacob Wrestling with the Angel from Vienna Genesis (ca. 6 cent.). Possibly the oldest depiction of the circumstances and mechanism of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) injury based on the description in the Book of Genesis: 

25 And Jacob 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.

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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 (2024АрхиповСВ. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день). 

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Miniature Jacob Wrestling with the Angel from Vienna Genesis (ca. 6 cent.); original in the onb.digital collection (CC0 – public domain, color correction, fragment).

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External links

Cod. Theol. gr. 31, fol. 12r: Wiener Genesis: Flußübergang; Jakob ringt mit dem Engel. (Text mit Miniatur: Übergang über den Fluß Jabok; Jakob ringt mit dem Gottesmanne, dieser gibt ihm den Namen Israel. Restaurierte Fassung: http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7811880. Fotografische Reproduktion. fol. 12r). https://onb.digital/result/10F14E41

Leeser I. The twenty-four books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Massoretic text, on the basis of the English version after the best Jewish authorities and supplied with short explanatory notes by Isaac Leeser. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1922. archive.org

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

 

Authors & Affiliations

Author unknown (c. 6th century), illustrated Coptic(?) manuscript, probably created in Syria. wikipedia.org

   

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, image, damage, injury, mechanism, illustration, Bible

                                                                     

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