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306 large booty. The story emphasizes the independent attitude of the patriarch, who refused any additional remuneration from the king28. The writing of Genesis Chapter 14 could go back to the fourth or third century BC, under the empire of the conflict between the Oniads and the Tobiads {c.220 BC}....

302 this chapter are very old, it means that originally they may have had a very different meaning from that received when the chapter was written. The story a) was, perhaps, taken from a cycle of legends about Lot, whose hero was other than Abraham. The relation b) would have had an origin very dis...

Page 298 I. Melchizedek1 is an enigmatic character. He appears in an unusual way and without any connection with the text in two passages of the Old Testament; he also reappears in the Qumran texts, in the Epistle to the Hebrews and in a number of Gnostic books. In addition, he appears frequently in...

Bodinger, Martin. “L'énigme de Melkisédeq.” Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 211 (1994), 297–333. Translated from the French: all errors mine. LINK to Jstor Variant Spellings: Melchizedek Melkisédeq Melkisedeq Milki-çedek מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶֿק Melchisedech Malki Tzedek Melkizedek Melchisedek Several year...

Hence, the lake was named a "sea" by "Mark" (author) in reference to death connected with it, death provoked by the First Revolt. "Mark" dates c.65 AD at the very earliest (I suppose); but the 'lake' was known as a ' sea ' long before that! Wiki tells me The modern Heb...

I agree this is fascinating material. Paul meets Peter & (a) John in Antioch, if we are to assume, in c.44 AD. Paul still appears to be flexibly heterodox, so his full conversion/meeting 'Jesus on the Road to Damascus' would be dubious - a known version, an opportunistic improvement? - against t...

A preaching to a barely-Christianized and/or backsliding 'Melchizedek cult' of Judaizers (Jews AND proselytes: the circumcision argument was settled, among them). I suppose it's heavily redacted, still. Where was this congregation, if not Alexandria? Was it a widespread network of Alexandria-oriente...

R.A.B. Mynors’ Desiderius Erasmus Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages II VII 1 to III III 100 , Vol. 34 [1992], p.127 2.9.95/ LB 2.684a : Nephalium sacrum A nephalian sacrifice νηφάλιος θυσία, A nephalian (or sober) sacrifice, will not be out of place when used of an abstemious meal or of one which i...

Reference, in Latin, see Karl Wilhelm Dindorf's Onomasticon cum annotationibus interpretum Vol. 5, Part 1 [1824], pp.33-4.
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Why either-or, not both? Isn't 'offspring' a lineage (singular YES, but a plurality in-the-chain)? 'Seed' is every generation in a line of descent . As any system of male primogeniture limits to a chosen son, so such a system might likewise favor one-&-only each generation (however: competing cl...