Naked Bible 166: Melchizedek Part 1a

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 9 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Melchizedek is one of the more enigmatic figures in the Bible. Mentioned in only two passages in the Old Testament (Gen 14:17-24; Psalm 110), he nevertheless drew a lot of attention during the Second Temple Period and the New Testament. Thousands of pages of scholarly research have been devoted to him. Nearly everything said about him produces interpretive problems, from the nature of his name, to its meaning, to his identity as a Canaanite (non-Israelite), to why Psalm 110 favors his priesthood about that of Aaron. This episode and the next (1b) of the podcast focuses on the Old Testament associated with Melchizedek. Later episodes will be devoted to how he was understood in Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament. Resources: “Melchizedek,” Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch (IVP) “Melchizedek,” Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill, Eerdmans)

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0:26.4	Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast episode 166.
0:30.0	Now, kids of that part 1A, I'm the layman, Tray Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr.
0:35.2	Michael Heizer.
0:36.2	Hey, Mike, how you doing?
0:38.0	Well, I'm doing pretty good better since getting back home.
0:42.0	Things can be repaired at the normal level of chaos, I guess, but I like that.
0:46.0	Yeah, back from Roswell.
0:47.7	Did you see any UFOs when you were there?
0:50.6	No, I saw plenty of UFOs.
0:52.9	Yes.
0:53.9	I've taken out a building and windows and all that sort of stuff.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:59.4	Yeah, for the 50th and now the 70th, it's amazing how fast 20 years goes by.
1:04.6	Yeah, that's true.
1:06.4	But it was nice to connect with people that I'd seen there before.
1:12.7	Everything from podcast listeners, not just pure normal, but this podcast all the way
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