Naked Bible 185: Hebrews 7

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Hebrews 7 picks up themes that are familiar already to readers of the book. The writer defends the superiority of Christ’s priesthood to the Levitical priesthood of the Old Testament on the basis of his connection to Melchizedek. A key part of this strategy is to declare that Levi “paid tithes to Melchizedek, being still in the loins of his ancestor” (Abraham). How are we to understand this idea? This episode tackles this difficult issue, as well as the tradition that Melchizedek was Noah’s son Shem. McNamara, "Melchizedek: Gen 14:17-20 in the Targums, in Rabbinic and Early Christian Literature," Biblica 81 (2000) Orlov, "The Melchizedek Legend of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch," Journal for the Study of Judaism Vol. 31, No. 1 (2000): 23-38

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0:26.5	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast episode 185 Hebrews chapter 7.
0:31.2	I'm the layman, Tray Strickland.
0:33.2	He's a scholar Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:34.7	Hey, Mike, how are you doing this week?
0:36.2	Pretty good.
0:37.2	Pretty good.
0:38.2	Ready for Melchizedek again, our boy.
0:41.3	This would be the shortest podcast ever.
0:44.0	It's going to be referencing.
0:46.0	Cool, listen to that other stuff.
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:48.8	Well, that's all the time we have for now.
0:50.8	Yeah, that's good.
0:51.8	No, before we get started, Mike, I just want to remind everybody that we're going to try
0:55.1	to do a get together in Boston because we'll be at the SPL and ETS covering the conferences.
1:02.1	So we're aiming for Friday, November 17th in Boston somewhere.
1:06.1	So stay tuned to that.
1:07.3	We'll try to do a live Q&A like we did last year in San Antonio.
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