Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

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