Editing Jean Astruc (section)

{{Short description|French physician and professor (1684–1766)}}
[[File:Jean Astruc 02.jpg|thumb|Jean Astruc]]

'''Jean Astruc''' (19 March 1684, in [[Sauve, Gard|Sauve]], [[France]] – 5 May 1766, in [[Paris]]) was a professor of medicine in France at [[Montpellier]] and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on [[syphilis]] and [[venereal disease]]s, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of [[biblical criticism|critical textual analysis of works of the Bible]]. Astruc was the first to propose and hypothesize, by using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics, the theory that [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach now called the ''[[documentary hypothesis]].''