tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post2765498293243452496..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : E. A. Speiser and Deuteronomy 21:16Alice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-53283727017193528402015-03-13T04:25:12.229-07:002015-03-13T04:25:12.229-07:00Read this:
http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/201...Read this:<br /><br />http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2012/03/who-was-melchizedek.html<br /><br />Jerome and Ephrem were referring to extra-Biblical Jewish sources. If we look at the Biblical text alone we get a different picture of Melchizedek. Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-86252376081438957012010-10-31T18:10:47.668-07:002010-10-31T18:10:47.668-07:00Hi Alice,
Do you know of a tradition which holds ...Hi Alice,<br /><br />Do you know of a tradition which holds that Melchizedek is actually Shem?<br /><br />"Melchizedek is identified in the Jewish Targums and midrashic sources as Shem, the first-born son of Noah. Joseph Fitzmyer cites the Targum Neofiti I, the Fragmentary Targums, and the Targum Pseuto-Jonathan, all of which identify Melchizedek as Shem..." <br /><br />"In this interpretation, the blessing by Noah of Shem-Melchizedek in Gen. 9:26 is understood as the patriarchal priestly blessing, which is then passed on by Shem-Melchizedek to Abraham in Gen. 14:19. Hence, Shem-Melchizedek, the first-born son of Noah, is the chief priest and patriarch (father figure) over his house, that is over all of his extended family which through ten generations includes Abraham as well (cf. Gen 11:10-26). Abraham, after receiving the blessing from Shem-Melchizedek, is designated to become the new chief priest and patriarch over all his descendants." (Father Gadenz, pp. 217-218). <br /><br />St. Jerome: They say that he [Melchizedek] was Shem, the son of Noah, and calculating the years of his life, they declare that he lived to the time of Isaac, and that all the first-born [from] Noah, until Aaron exercised the priesthood, were high priests. (Epistle 73 Patrologica Latina, vol. 22, 676-81)<br /><br />St. Ephrem of Syria believed the same.maximushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01086218903799586114noreply@blogger.com