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Document Details : Title: Melchizedek in the MT, LXX, and the NT Author(s): FITZMYER, Joseph A. Journal: Biblica Volume: 81 Issue: 1 Date: 2000 Pages: 63-69 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.81.1.3200422 Abstract : Melchizedek is mentioned in the Hebrew Old Testament only in Gen 14,18-20 and Psalm 110,4. The details about this (originally Canaanite) priest-king in these passages were further read and understood in the Hellenistic and Roman periods of Jewish, and later Christian, history. This is seen in the translation or interpretation of the passages in the Septuagint, the writings of Flavius Josephus, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the Peshitta, where a process of allegorization was at work. |
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