William Robertson Smith and Stanley Arthur Cook

“ In a genuine record of extreme antiquity the union of king and priest in one person, the worship of El as the supreme deity by a Canaanite, [2] and the widespread practice of the consecration of a tithe of booty can present no difficulty; but, if the historical character of the narrative is denied, the date of the conception must be placed as late as the rise of the temporal authority of the high priests after the exile. ”

“ That Salem is Jerusalem, as in Psalm lxxvi. 2, is the ancient and common view; but even in the 15th century B.C. Jerusalem was known as Uru-salim. Jerome and others have identified Salim with one or other of the various places which bear that name, e.g. ”