. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . demption of Zion). A fruit. M. ( = brass or cojper). tists. The natural explanation seems to us to bethat the Alexandrian Jews adopted for the shekel the term didrachm as the common name of the coincorresponding in weight to it, and that it thus be-. Obv.: (on the right) as above, omitting rebia — quarter. A sheaf betweentwo fruits! Rev.: (on the left) as above. Vase. M. (=- brass or copptr). came in Hebraistic Greek the equivalent of is no ground for supposing a difference in usein the LXX. and N. T. The fabric of the silvercoins above
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . demption of Zion). A fruit. M. ( = brass or cojper). tists. The natural explanation seems to us to bethat the Alexandrian Jews adopted for the shekel the term didrachm as the common name of the coincorresponding in weight to it, and that it thus be-. Obv.: (on the right) as above, omitting rebia — quarter. A sheaf betweentwo fruits! Rev.: (on the left) as above. Vase. M. (=- brass or copptr). came in Hebraistic Greek the equivalent of is no ground for supposing a difference in usein the LXX. and N. T. The fabric of the silvercoins above described is so different from that ofany other ancient money, that it is extremely hardto base any argument on it alone, and the cases ofother special classes, as the ancient money of Cy-prus, show the danger of such reasoning. Someconsider it as proving that these coins cannot belater than the time of Nehemiah, others will notadmit it to be later than Alexanders time, whilesome still hold that it is not too archaic for the Mac-cabean period. The inscriptions of these coins, andall the other Hebrew inscriptions of Jewish coins,are in a character of which there are few other ex-amples. As Gesenius has observed, it bears a strongresemblance to the Samaritan and Phenician, andwe may ad
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