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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "fred burlingame" <tensorpath AT gmail.com>, "George Athas" <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] nifty little tricks
  • Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:18:00 -0600

A silver shekel was a tad more than .5 oz (about 220 grains) 50 silver shekels = 6 gold shekels. 50 silver shekels = 1 mina (2.5 Lb), 60 minas = 1 talent (about 94.5 Lb). A gold talent was double the weight of a silver talent. Gold today is $1,400.00 an oz (Troy) making a talent of gold worth $3,214,800.00. Give or take a mite or two.

Jack Kilmon

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From: "fred burlingame" <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:15 AM
To: "George Athas" <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
Cc: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] nifty little tricks

Hello George:

The points of the thread.

What was the weight of the shekel in the time of the biblical hebrew
language? 1/2 ounce?

Did the shekel weight of gold differ from the shekel weight of silver or
weight of other products at that time?

The noun מקום . Does it mean "standing place?" And in the context of this
verse, does it mean the real estate or land (aka acreage) surrounding the
threshing floor, or continue to mean just the threshing floor itself?

regards,

fred burlingame

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:41 PM, George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>wrote:

This thread is quite marginal, Fred. Either make a point about the language
or the literature, or we’ll have to bring it to a close.

*
GEORGE ATHAS
*Co-Moderator, B-Hebrew
(Sydney, Australia)


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