Multiple Melchizedeks in the Books of Jeu and Pistis Sophia Note: This article is provided here to make the information within publicly available. Should you require data for a footnote, then it was originally published as: Dalgaard, Kasper: “Multiple Melchizedeks in the Gnostic Pistis Sophia and Books of Jeu ,” in Torah Traditions and Ancient Readers in Early Judaism and Christianity, Henoch Journal 38 (Eds. J. Dunne & G. Allen), Morcellian, 54-66 The two 3 rd -century Christian texts the Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia are both sterling examples of how later traditions reuse sacred texts and traditions in their compositional techniques. One example, but perhaps the most intriguing, is the manifold Melchizedek-traditions we find harmonized by the redactors of the texts. While these Melchizedek-figures ultimately derive from the Hebrew Bible (Gen 14:18-20; Ps 110:4), their functions in the Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia reflect how t
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