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<p>[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 1571614, member: 9204"]Case in point - I have no idea why you would cite that chart in that particular post. </p><p><br /></p><p>My Harper Collin's Study Bible translates the passage idiomatically, "a ration of wheat for a day's pay," while the King James translation gives "a measure of wheat for a penny." Penny, in the later case, being a 17th cent. parallel to the denarius. N.B. - the Bible is in this instance a legitimate historical source of the first century AD, but must be viewed with extreme caution, as Biblical interpretation often gets carried away with itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ardatirion, post: 1571614, member: 9204"]Case in point - I have no idea why you would cite that chart in that particular post. My Harper Collin's Study Bible translates the passage idiomatically, "a ration of wheat for a day's pay," while the King James translation gives "a measure of wheat for a penny." Penny, in the later case, being a 17th cent. parallel to the denarius. N.B. - the Bible is in this instance a legitimate historical source of the first century AD, but must be viewed with extreme caution, as Biblical interpretation often gets carried away with itself.[/QUOTE]
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