Problem: There is a “Heavenly Prince of Light” described in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Qumran, particularly in the fragment 11Q13. In Geza Vermes’, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th ed., 1997), even Vermes somewhat equates Melchizedek in Hebrews with the one mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls (p.500). However, this comparison between Melchizedek in Hebrews 7 and Qumran is not very persuasive:
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