Sydyk

Sydyk (Συδυκ, in some manuscripts Sydek or Sedek) was the name of a deity appearing in a theogeny 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.