Abstract
The strange Melchizedek pericope in Gen 14:18–20 garners much attention from scholars seeking the function of the enigmatic priest of the Most-High God. Most scholars brush past the mention of the bread and wine Melchizedek gives to Abram and overlook the early Christian exegetes of Genesis 14 who consider this bread and wine as a preview of the Eucharist found in the body and blood of Christ. This essay seeks to illuminate three of these early Christian authors’ exegeses of Gen 14:18–20 as integral to the historical understanding of the Eucharist. Moreover, this essay seeks to situate Gen 14:18–20 as part of the traditional understanding of the Eucharist and proposes that it should be rediscovered by Baptists.
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