Karl, where in the text do you get the concept of Melchizedek's deity being the 'universal God'?
GEORGE ATHAS Director of Postgraduate Studies, Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au) Sydney, Australia From: K Randolph <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:56:08 -0700 To: George Athas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 14:18-22 George: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, George Athas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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. Agreed. But he is taking it out of the context of Genesis where Melchizedek’s El Elion is the universal God, not limited to a particular city and/or country. Thus he is not the same deity that the Canaanites worshipped. Are there any surviving Canaanite or west Semitic documents from Abraham’s time or earlier that indicate the deities that the Canaanites worshipped, or are the only documents that survive date from centuries later when a local El Elion was a dim and corrupted memory of the universal God taught by Melchizedek? … GEORGE ATHAS Director of Postgraduate Studies, Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au<http://moore.edu.au>) Sydney, Australia Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
