Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

You're right. Now that you mention it, I remember 
the words.

Where do you get the idea that such mention is 
anachronistic? In my reading of Tanakh, I get the 
impression that Cyrus' command allowing Jews to 
return to Judea and rebuild the temple and 
Nehemiah's commission to rebuild Jerusalem's walls 
were two completely separate events with a century 
spanning the interval between them.

Chronicles was written after the Exile, so its 
mention is an explanation, while Nehemiah and Ezra 
were writing about their own time, ca. 420 to 400 
BC, or well after Darius 1.

Could it be that counting the tithe as a percentage 
of money started at about that time? As a nod to 
those Jews who lived in Babylon while Jews who 
returned to Judea tithed in the traditional manner?

Karl W. Randolph.
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
> 
> On 10/03/2006 18:36, Karl Randolph wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > The widespread use of coinage postdates Tanakh. ...
> >
> 
> Not quite. The earliest coin in widespread use was the daric, 
> introduced by and named after Darius I of Persia, 521-486 BCE. It 
> is mentioned in the Tanakh (Hebrew DARK:MON, 'ADARKON) in 1 
> Chronicles 29:7, Ezra 2:69, 8:27, Nehemiah 7:69,70,71. All but Ezra 
> 2:69 are technically anachronistic as, apart from 1 Chronicles 
> 29:7, they seem to date to the reign of Cyrus who preceded Darius. 
> But presumably the author of these books restated the amounts of 
> gold in terms of the units he or she was familiar with.
> 
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

>


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