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MELCHIOR

(Lat. Melchior)

The name given by Western tradition to one of three wise men bringing gifts to the child Jesus (Matt. 2:11). The earliest attestation of the name is the Excerpta Latina Barbari, a 7th-8th century Latin translation of a 6th-century Greek chronicle from Egypt. Melchior also appears above the representation of the Magi in the 5th-century mosaic of St. Apollinaris (Nouvo) in Ravenna, but it is a later addition. Melchior is usually associated with the gift of gold. His relics and those of his traditional companions are at Cologne.

Bibliography. B. M. Metzger, “Names for the Nameless in the New Testament,” in Kyriakon, ed. P. Granfield and J. A. Jungmann (Münster, 1970), 1:79-99.

Ronald V. Huggins






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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