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The Akkadian talent was called kakkaru [5] [6] in the Akkadian language, [7] corresponding to Biblical Hebrew kikkar כִּכָּר (translated as Greek τάλαντον 'talanton' in the Septuagint, [8] English 'talent'), Ugaritic kkr (𐎋𐎋𐎗), [9] Phoenician kkr (𐤒𐤒𐤓), [10] Syriac kakra (ܟܲܟܪܵܐ), [11] and apparently to gaggaru in the Amarna Tablets. [12]
As a unit of currency, a talent was worth about 6,000 denarii. [1] A denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour. [1] At one denarius per day, a single talent was therefore worth 20 years of labor (assuming a 6-day work week, because nobody would work on the weekly Sabbath).
Jesus of Nazareth tells the "parable of the minas" in Luke 19:11–27, also told as the "parable of the talents" in Matthew 25:14–30. In later Jewish usage, the maneh is equal in weight to 100 denarii. [11] From the Akkadian period, 2 mina was equal to 1 sila of water (cf. clepsydra, water clock).
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More significantly, 10,000 (a myriad) was the highest Greek numeral, and a talent the largest unit of currency, [1] so that 10,000 talents was the largest easily described debt (for comparison, the combined annual tribute of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea around this time was only 600 talents, [2] and one denarius was a day's wages, [2] so that ...
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