Despite the diversity of proposals about who Melchizedek really was, it has not been possible to reach a definitive consensus about this biblical character to date.

The only thing we know about him is that he was a High Priest, prophet and king of Salem, who appeared after the Flood, during the time of Abraham. However, we do not know his genealogy, both in terms of his ancestry and his descendants, and we do not know anything about his life either, since, according to Paul of Tarsus, Melchizedek had no beginning of days, nor end of life (Hebrews 7:3). Since this biblical text was translated from Hebrew into Greek, we...