Adonizedek
Adonizedek | |
|---|---|
| King of Jerusalem | |
| Reign | c. 1350 BCE |
According to the
Adonizedek led a coalition of five of the neighboring
According to the Midrash, the name Adoni-zedek is translated as "Master of Zedek"—that is, "of Jerusalem", the city of righteousness.[5]
Genesis 14:18-20 records that, some 600 years prior to Adoni-zedek, there was another ruler of Jerusalem named Melchi-zedek. It may be possible that Zedek was a dynastic name/title for the rulers of Jerusalem before David.
M. G. Easton, in the 1894 Easton's Bible Dictionary, identifies Adonizedek with a king of Jerusalem called `Abdi-Heba ("servant of Heba"), who around 1350 BC wrote several letters to the Pharaoh of Egypt. Six of his letters to the king of Egypt are included in the Amarna letters,[6] and he is mentioned in a seventh.[7]
In Popular Culture
Adonizedek was portrayed by Actor and Bolsonaro's once Secretary of Culture Mário Frias in the Brazilian soap opera A Terra Prometida, in it Adonizedek is portrayed as an arrogant king later revealed to be sadistic as well by keeping and talking to his mother and wife skeletons.
References
- ^ Joshua 10:1–3
- ^ W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore (1899), "Adoni-zedec" in Cheyne and Black, eds. Encyclopaedia Biblica. [1]
- ^ Geoffrey W. Bromiley ed., The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1994, entries Melchizedek, Adoni-zedek
- ^ Joshua 10:22–19
- ^ Genesis Rabbah xliii. 6. For an English translation, see H. Freedman; Maurice Simon, eds. (1961) [1939]. Midrash Rabbah: Translated into English with Notes, Glossary, and Indices. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd. p. 356.
- ^ EA 285-290 (Amarna letters numbered 285-290)
- ^ EA 280 (Amarna letter number 280)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Adoni-zedek". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Adoni-zedec". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
