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An interesting passage in Ephesians: Ephesians 5: 12 “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” This doesn't come from the Jewish scriptures. Any ideas? Looks like kabbalic necromancy. ... The jewish groups that didn't see Jesus and Christ joined into Jesus Christ. Right. A...

330 Epistle’s author made him another hypostasis of the ancient divinity, the embodiment of mankind’s continuing hope in righteousness and salvation. The author of the Epistle also used the controversy within Judaism against the Melchizedek tradition; he avoided speaking of him as of a divine being,...

326 is identified with Michael: simply, this one receives the name of ‘Melchizedek’ (which amounts to saying that there is no link between the two characters, of whom the Prince of Light is Michael, and not Melchizedek91). Carmignac’s error — and Kobelski’s — is to have sought the Priest Melchizedek...

322 The ease with which solar mythology was integrated into the Hebrews’ religion (despite a struggle against idolatry) shows the depth of this cult’s tradition. At the same time, the important place occupied by notion of Justice and the righteous in Judaism aided this integration. In eschatological...

318 Shalim were isolated from their specific religious ambiance, their meaning changed: Melchizedek became a king, his title of ‘cohen’ was interpreted in a new way. III At first glance, the intertestamental literature does not seem to be interested in Melchizedek. The legend of his miraculous birth...

314 whose meaning we are looking for. Kirkland associates it with the idea of alliance. Nyberg emphasizes the role of wine in the cult of Elyon. However, most commentators adopt the traditional interpretation52. But this formula has an unmistakable religious content: it is the symbolic expression of...

310 comparison with that of Adonizedek41, without noticing that in this Chapter the sun plays a particularly important role. It is to him that the chief of the Hebrews addresses the request to stop; there are parallels with Genesis 14 and I do not exclude a reciprocal influence. ‘Melekh’ and ‘Zedek’...

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...