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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 452259, member: 4381&quot;]FWIW I don&#039;t consider the 1st century biblical times.</p><p><br /></p><p>However the money changers were specific to the Temple because of the need for a sheckle for census and sacrifices, and it had to be an exact sheckle.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were specific rituals with silver relating to the temple which involved the entire nation during the festivals creating an intense need for Sheckles at those times, but which was not part of normal commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They didn&#039;t worry about international trade.&nbsp; They were specific for the Temple services.&nbsp; The sheckles themselves were a weight and the coins had to be an exact weight.&nbsp; If not they needed to be traded for proper coins of the exact weight.&nbsp; So they really didn&#039;t really care about their design and is further evident by the enormous variety of coinage found in Israel today.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are discussions about how the coins were exchanged exactly and further about half sheckles and whole sheckles being drawn up from the silver that was collected by the exchanges and exactly how much they could charge for the money exchange.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, originally the Temple administration itself did all the exchanges through out the city of Jerusalem, and then after Herod this changed for not good reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never read the story your quoting, but this would be the origin of the Rabbiums complaint about the money exchangers.&nbsp; They weren&#039;t really allowed and this was one of the functions of the Cohanim who ran the temple mount and would be a sore point which is covered repeatedly in the Mishnah and ancillary works of that time frame.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to repeat, when I say Biblical, I&#039;m talking Abraham and Jacob, not Herod <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yes.&nbsp; I&#039;m not denying that,&nbsp; In fact in Israel it was religiously MANDATED as part of the census.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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