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Gann, Windell. "Commentary on Genesis 14". Gann's Commentary on the Bible. https://studylight.org/commentaries/eng/gbc/genesis-14.html. 2021.
Gann, Windell. "Commentary on Genesis 14". Gann's Commentary on the Bible. https://studylight.org/
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Verse 18
Genesis 14:18
Both the second-century Aramaic Targum Neofiti and the Fragment Targum identify Melchizedek with Noah’s son Shem in its translation of Genesis 14:18: “The king of Righteousness (Melka-sedek), the king of Jerusalem—he is Shem, the great one—brought out bread and wine, for he was the priest who served in the High Priesthood before the Most High God” (also the later Targum Pseudo-Jonathan).
Schniedewind, W. M. (2000). Melchizedek, Traditions of. In C. A. Evans & S. E. Porter (Eds.), Dictionary of New Testament background: a compendium of contemporary biblical scholarship (electronic ed., p. 694). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.