Deities of the ancient Near East |
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Religions of the ancient Near East |
Sydyk (Συδυκ, in some manuscripts Sydek or Sedek) was the name of a deity appearing in a theogony provided by Roman-era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos in an account preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio evangelica and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon.[1]
Robert R. Cargill has recently argued in favor of etymologizing Melchizedek as “my king is Zedek”,[2] a deity postulated to have been worshipped in pre-Israelite Jerusalem and a possible forerunner of Sydyk.