- BC) give
ranges from a
minimum of two
shekels per
month for
unskilled labour, to as high as
seven to ten
shekels per
month in some records. A subsistence...
-
early Biblical reference is
Abraham being reported to pay "four
hundred shekels of silver" to
Ephron the
Hittite for the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron...
- They
could have been
tetradrachms of Tyre,
usually referred to as
Tyrian shekels (14
grams of 94% silver), or
staters from
Antioch (15
grams of 75% silver)...
- Syracuse. This Siculo-Punic
coinage probably preceded Phoenicia's own
Tyrian shekels,
which developed c. 400 BC. The
first Carthaginian coinage seems to have...
-
Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or
tetradrachmas were
coins of Tyre. They also bore the Gr****
inscription ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (Týrou hierâs kai asýlou...
- the man of one mina. One mina (1⁄60 of a talent) was made
equal to 60
shekels (1
shekel = 8.3 grams, or 0.3 oz).
Among the
surviving laws are these:...
- and
shekels had not yet been introduced. By the time of Ur-Nammu (shortly
before 2000 BCE), the mina had a
value of 1⁄60
talent as well as 60
shekels. The...
-
checks issued by
Israeli banks between 1980 and 1985.
Quoting prices in new
shekels started officially on 1
January 1986, and the old
shekel checks remaining...
-
David paid 50
silver shekels for the
threshing floor and the oxen (2
Samuel 24:24);
Chronicles states that
David paid 600 gold
shekels for the
entire site...
- "half-pieces"
means two half-
shekels, then the
various weights—a mənê or
sixty shekels,
another shekel, and two half-
shekels—add up to 62,
which the tale...
