Cursed silver, the money of the devil, the sin of Judas, the embodiment of human greed, thirty silver coins - entered the culture, religion, art, etymology and life of a huge part of people. Legendary money, what was it really? How are Baal and human sacrifice related to grain and flies?
30 , , "" , , – , . , 28 .. 1000 , , .
, , . , . Hanniba al – « ». – . .
. , – , . , , , /. – ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, – « ».
14 . – 94%. , (siqlu) . 180 , 11 14 . , , , . , , – .
– . , . , , -, -, -, , .. .. - . , , () ( ). , – .
, , , , , . Baal Zebub – « », – . , . .
, . , . . – , , – . , .
- , , . ( ) .
? , , :
, , , , , , , 4 : , . : ? . 5 , , , . 6 , , : , . 7 , , ; 8 « » . 9 , : , , , 10 , .
– « », , - . 19 . .
, 1 , 4 4 . 30 120 . 1578 , . 470 748 .
Oddly enough, one of the biblical miracles recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 17: 24-27 is connected with the same coin. When Jesus was asked to pay the tax to the temple, he sent Peter, telling him to take a fishing rod and go to the sea. And the first fish to bite is to open its mouth, take a coin and give it in payment to the temple. Peter did so. And in the fish's mouth was that Tiberian shekel.
In the 56th year of our era, Rome prohibited minting coins in Tire, leaving this right only to Jewish rabbis in Palestine. But this practice was also interrupted after the uprising of the Jews, just 10 years later.
Today, anyone can buy a copy of this coin on the popular Asian website for home delivery for a much lower amount.