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Hebrews was written to challenge and encourage professing Jewish believers who were considering abandoning the Christian faith and returning to the Jewish religion. Throughout his work, the unknown author shows how Christ is superior to all that the OT offered, including prophets, the High Priest, the Levitical sacrificial system and the Old Covenant. In Christ, all believers have Jesus to be the...

whole incident. Abram’s response is to accept Melchizedek’s authority and then offer him a tithe of the battle prize. Melchizedek then disappears from the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible. He comes and goes suddenly. The only other mention of him in the Hebrew Bible is in Psalm 110:4, a highly significant Messianic Psalm which Hebrews quotes later in this chapter. The Psalm was already seeing a typological value in Melchizedek, and Hebrews teases out the full significance of this typology.
Pages 69–70
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