The Beka was equivalent to the half-shekel, which every person from the age of 20 years and up was required to bring to the Temple.” According to the release, the biblical shekel weighed 11.33 ...

as recounted in the Bible." Eli Escusido, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said, "The discovery of the half-shekel coin is yet another gift that the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

A biblical shekel weighed 11.33 grams. “In order to calculate the weight of these silver pieces they would put them on one side of the scales and on the other side they placed the beka weight. The ...

The coin contains 32 grams of pure silver and represents three times the amount of the biblical silver half-shekel that was donated by every Jewish male to finance the daily operation of the temple.

The foreign coin is of the denomination used during the turbulent Second Temple period to pay the Biblical half-shekel head-tax. This coming Thursday night (Saturday night for Jerusalemites ...

Archaeologists believe the so-called Tyrian Shekel would have been used by pilgrims ... Even though this type of coin is described in biblical texts, not many of these have been found.

The Beka weight was used to weigh the half-shekel donation brought by the Jewish people for the maintenance of the Temple and the census, and it is mentioned in the Bible in Exodus 38, Verse 26 ...