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In the previous chapter, it became patently clear that we needed to touch on various cotexts before and after Genesis 14 in our rhetorical-discourse analysis. The purpose of this chapter is, therefore, to develop a better understanding of Genesis 14, particularly vv. 18-20, by examining the cotexts preceding and following Genesis 14. These cotexts, we believe, should be read together with Genesis 14 in order to best appreciate the role and thrust of the Melchizedek episode in the Abrahamic cycle, and its contribution to OT theology. We need to determine the extent of the cotexts of Genesis 14 as we seek to understand their contribution to the literary-thematic role of Melchizedek. The immediate cotext for vv. 18-20 is Genesis 14 itself. By extension, the cotexts of Genesis 14 should be Genesis 13 and 15. Should the reader stop at Genesis 13 and 15, the immediate cotext of Genesis 14? For that matter, how do we set the limits of the text’s cotext? To be cautious, the criteria to include certain passages as cotexts of Genesis 14 should not be arbitrary. These criteria include the existence of both literary-semantic and thematic connections of these cotexts to Genesis 14. In addition, encompassing all these texts is a literarysemantic use of the multiple entries of $rb.239 We have delineated in our last chapter the multiple entries of $rb as a bracket to delimit the Abrahamic cycle from Genesis 12 to 22. Therefore, in one broad stroke, Genesis 12-22 serves as a cotext for Genesis 14.

5 A Literary and Discourse Analysis of the Contexts of Genesis 14: Various Texts in Genesis and Numbers 22-24