This prompts the audience to interpret “son of Abraham” in terms of “son of David,” in other words, to interpret Abraham in royal terms. Two passages are relevant here. In the *Septuagint’s rendering of Gen 23:6*, the Hittites say to Abraham, “You are a king from God among us.” In the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (in the Pseudepigrapha), Levi is promised that a Judean king will arise to create a new priesthood, and that king will be a descendant of Abraham (T. Levi 8:14–15). The relevance