Hey everybody, this is Tim and welcome to the Bible Project Podcast.

In this week's episode we are going to be concluding our whole series on the Royal

Priesthood team in the Bible.

In this last episode is going to be an interview with a biblical scholar who has researched

and published work actually on the story of the first Royal Priest that we meet in the

Bible, Melchizedek, Priest King of Ancient Shalom.

We've explored the figure and the story about Abraham and Melchizedek already in this

series, but we're going to interview Joshua Matthews.

He's a professor of biblical studies at Western Seminary.

He did his dissertation on the story of Abraham and Melchizedek in Genesis chapter 14.

You can go check out his book, it's called Melchizedek's Alternative Priestly Order.

So in this conversation we get to talk with him about his discoveries and reflections

on this very interesting story and the fascinating figure of Melchizedek.

We're also going to see some important connections between Melchizedek and kind of a surprise

character in the storyline of the revival that John and I have never talked about before.

Moses's father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, this guy is awesome.

There are lots of connections between him and Melchizedek.

We're also going to try and trace the path for how the Melchizedek of the Bible ended

up being a very popular figure in Jewish imagination in the time period around Jesus, the

letter to the Hebrews.

Melchizedek is just a rad guy to talk about any time of the day, so that's what we're

going to do in this episode.

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