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Melchizedek on trial
Paperback
Christian FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 15 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An old man serves bread at Baltimore's Inner Harbor and asks for nothing in return. He has no name the system can find, no birth certificate, and no address except one word: Salem.
He pulls a boy from the water with a walking stick. He feeds strangers and calls them by names he was never told.
When a family takes him in for the winter, everything that makes him remarkable becomes, in the eyes of the State of Maryland, evidence that he is dangerously unwell.
Melchizedek on Trial centers on a commitment hearing that places an impossible question before an ordinary courtroom. Told thirteen years later by the boy Mel saved, the novel hands you the case file and asks you to be the one who finally rules.
The novel is followed by The Exhibits, a nonfiction appendix that examines the biblical evidence and presents the case for who Melchizedek might actually have been.
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