Don appears to be reading Gen 14 against a henotheistic background in which cities and/or countries were associated with the worship of a particular deity. And a traveller to those cities/countries had to respect in some way the deity of that city/country. Don's right that there is NOT every expectation that Melchizedek worshiped the same God as Abram. It's possible, but we should not expect it to be the case, especially given what we know about El Elyon as a Canaanite deity.
GEORGE ATHAS Director of Postgraduate Studies, Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au) Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
