A separate matter – but one I would like to address. Surely the only thing we are interested in is - what the story probably meant in the 1st...
No problem - all criticism is useful. I never looked into Targum before that :)
A perennial aspiration :(
Lots of interesting thoughts - makes me return to reconsider the point made by @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix. Amplified by the Reiner article which...
Thanks! That is exactly what I meant - about approaching evidence "with care and judgement" Is that exactly how it appears in the very earliest...
Prof Stephen Gorard: "Assessment of significance cannot be standardised and requires knowledge of an underlying figure that the analyst does not...
Well you sure know your bible better than me – but maybe better than Judas too? I would read text from back then as about a bag of lumps of silver...
Just checked and Google agrees I correctly translate French livre (489g) as “pound” (which unless specified might be 454g imperial or 373g troy)....
I just noticed this oddity If we assume the "thirty pieces of silver" were sela (tetradrachms of Tyre) and take the theoretical weight as 14.2g...
I agree - really interesting. My general understanding is that hacksilver is random weight. I got that mainly from Mark Blackburn, who looked at...
Puts me on the spot Doug. Brings to my mind something that rude fellow William Clinton tended to say around 1992. Instead I will quote the more...
Thanks. The best guess is that Athenian market weight was spread round the Mediterranean by Phoenicians, and derives from a standard that arose...
Looks that way - but I think they are actually a set of Athenian market weights. All hitting a rather low version of that one standard. The...
I can only partly answer – but Athenians used two different standards - just like we did till recent times Attic was for coins (much as we use...
Sure Doug – a Chinese reader can read the Official History of the Sung dynasty, published in 1346 – all 486 chapters. I think no English...
A valid point Doug. I should explain the incident I cited happened about 2004. At that time the web was a lot smaller. The sort of overview I got...
Yes. The main problem about this is next to nobody checks out most books any more, and even taking them off the shelves for reference seems to be...
Thanks. Note that if the gold coining pound is figured at 72 x 4.45g then this at 3.31g is pretty much spot on for 96 to the pound, apparently...
I am afraid it is passages like this I was thinking of The major Wuqia hoard was 947 Sasanid coins plus 13 gold ingots totaling 1.3 KG. That is...
Yes - perhaps you are thinking of Perry Anderson? - I quote from p. 93 of his "Passages from Antiquity to Fuedalism" “The new coinage inaugurated...
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