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 ...

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 ...

The shekel represents heritage. It has a rich history, dating back to ancient times. The biblical shekel was a silver coin and served as a standard of value. In modern times, Israel adopted the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

While on the search for more Dead Sea Scrolls, inspectors surveying Israel’s desert caves recently discovered a rare half-shekel coin from 66 or 67 CE, the first year of the Jewish Revolt ...

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.

One night two decades ago, in a valley outside Jerusalem, a group of looters dug up a startling piece of ancient Jewish history: A silver quarter shekel minted more than 2,000 years ago at the ...