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In NT times, the sanctuary shekel was equivalent to the Attic tetradrachmon, a four-drachma piece (Josephus, Ant 3:195) or to the stater of Mt 17:27. The half-shekel tax is called the didrachmon in Josephus, Ant 18:312, and in Philo, Heres 186.
Josephus was telling the truth about the Temple or if he was "pulling his punches" and that he greatly exaggerated his descrip tions of the Temple of Herod.
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When Josephus states that all who lived as Jews, anywhere, were subject to the Roman tax as they had previously been subject to the Temple Tax (Bell. 7.6.6 ? 218), he shows that the Romans classify as Jews those who follow the paternal customs or live a Jewish life. Philo (Flacc. 7.47-8.57) describes an attack against the paternal customs as a
The temple treasury was a storehouse (Hebrew אוצר 'otsar) first of the tabernacle then of the Jerusalem Temples mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The term "storehouse" is generic, and also occurs later in accounts of life in Roman Palestine where the otzar was a tax-collector's grainhouse.
Oct 30, 2015 · Summary. Flavius Josephus's descriptions of the Jerusalem temple provide extensive information about one of Herod's largest building projects. This chapter provides a side-by-side comparison of the temple in Judean War and Jewish Antiquities indicating that the two portrayals are complementary, with the later account in Jewish Antiquities ...
The first veil was ten cubits every way, and this they spread over the pillars which parted the temple, and kept the most holy place concealed within; and this veil was that which made this part not visible to any.
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Was this surplus fund actually considered to be as sacred as the fund for the servicing of the communal sacrifices? Josephus makes a distinction between the various categories of money held in the treasury. In the account in Antiquities he speaks about Temple money (sacred money). Here he says that Pilate spent money from the treasury.
