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The coins were the size of a modern Israeli half-shekel and were issued by Tyre, in that form, between 126 BC and AD 56. Earlier Tyrian coins with the value of a tetradrachm, bearing various inscriptions and images, had been issued from the second half of the fifth century BC. [2]
- Solomon to The Captivity: The First Temple Period
- Zerubbabel to The First Revolt: The Second Temple Period
- The First Jewish Revolt
- The Second Jewish Revolt
God inaugurated for ancient Israel its first stewardship program for a church ministry. To provide the considerable and consistent funds needed for a tabernacle or a temple, from Moses onward, each 20-year-old or older male, rich or poor, had to pay half a shekel as "an offering unto the Lord" at the time of the census (Ex. 30:11-16). The shekel th...
The Solomonic (or first) Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. After the Persians had conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., Darius I Hystaspes (522-486 B.C.) introduced a revolutionary system of economic exchange throughout the Persian Empire, Pales tine included. This new system of coinage was copied from the recently conquered Lydians of A...
In A.D. 66 the Jews revolted against the yoke of Rome. During this revolt they melted down all the Tyrian shekels in the Temple coffers and made new all-Jewish coins. These were the firstJewish coins ever made in silver (Figure 5). These coins carried Hebrew inscriptions dated according to the year of the revolt, "year one" being A.D. 66 and so on....
But oddly enough, the story of Temple coins doesn't end here. It was in A.D. 132, some sixty years after the destruction of the Temple, that the Jews first minted shekels picturing the Temple. This happened when Jews again revolted against Rome, this time under the leadership of Simon bar Kochba. During this second revolt Roman tetradrachms from An...
Jan 1, 2021 · The Jewish coin makers continued to strike coins with the image of Melqarth-Herakles and the eagle. This was contrary to the clear teachings of the Word of God (Ex 20:3, 4: Dt. 4:16-18; 5:8). Yet the rabbis declared that the Tyrian shekels were the only legal currency that was acceptable in the Temple (Hendin 2001:420-29; 2002:46, 47).
The Coins. Kadman split the coins of the First Jewish Revolt into three groups: 1) the silver sheqalim and half-sheqalim, 2) the bronze prutot of the second and third years of the Revolt, and 3) the bronzes of the fourth year of the Revolt. Three additional categories could be added to Kadman's: 4) the crude bronzes from Gamia, 5) the.
Bronze prutah eighth of a shekel of year 4 (69–70 CE) issued during the First Jewish Revolt. First Jewish Revolt coinage was issued by the Jews after the Zealots captured Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple from the Romans in 66 CE at the beginning of the First Jewish Revolt. The Jewish leaders of the revolt minted their own coins to emphasize ...
Jul 25, 2023 · According to Yaniv David Levy, Israel Antiquities Authority numismatic scholar: “Coins from the first year of the revolt, such as this one, are rare. During the Second Temple period, Jewish ...
The Antiochan Stater is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces. A Tyrian shekel, another possibility for the type of coin involved. The word used in Matthew 26:15 (ἀργύρια, argyria) simply means "silver coins", [10] and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used.
