Melchizedek's parentage was irregular. As I examine in my book, there was a cloud over the parentage of Moses, as well as both Jesus and John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke highlights the complexity about who fathered both figures, with special attention to the consequences for their mothers. Matthew's genealogy of Jesus intentionally breaks the father to son genealogy pattern by including 3 women whose male offspring were engendered in 'irregular' circumstances. The underlying question of 'legitimacy' is veiled but apparently significant for the complex issue of who could be a priest or king or both. https://www.bibletalkclub.net/who-is-the-father-of-melchizedek-in-the-bible/
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Melchizedek's parentage was irregular. As I examine in my book, there was a cloud over the parentage of Moses, as well as both Jesus and John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke highlights the complexity about who fathered both figures, with special attention to the consequences for their mothers. Matthew's genealogy of Jesus intentionally breaks the father to son genealogy pattern by including 3 women whose male offspring were engendered in 'irregular' circumstances. The underlying question of 'legitimacy' is veiled but apparently significant for the complex issue of who could be a priest or king or both. https://www.bibletalkclub.net/who-is-the-father-of-melchizedek-in-the-bible/