Melchizedek [SEP] present in work
malik" "king" is replaced by "adon" "lord".
Parallel theophoric names, with Sedeq replaced by Yahu, are those of Malchijah and Adonijah, both biblical characters placed in the time of David.
Hebrew Bible.
Melchizedek is mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible, the first in Genesis and the second in Psalms.
Hebrew Bible Genesis 14.
The narrative of Genesis 14 is part of the larger story telling how Abram returns from defeating king Chedorlaomer and meets with Bera the king of Sodom
defines the noted Melchizedek as referring to Ahron the Kohen Gadol (high priest).
In Judaism.
In Judaism Hellenistic Judaism.
Josephus refers to Melchizedek as a "Canaanite chief" in War of the Jews, but as a priest in Antiquities of the Jews.
Philo identifies Melchizedek with the Logos as priest of God, and honoured as an untutored priesthood.
The Second Book of Enoch (also called "Slavonic Enoch") is apparently a Jewish sectarian work of the 1st century AD. The last section