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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).
In Plautus, 20 minae is mentioned as the price of buying a slave. [21] It was also the price of hiring a courtesan for a year. [22] 40 minae is given as the price of a house. [23] In classical Latin the approximate equivalent of a mina was the libra (the word also meant "balance" or "weighing scales"). [24]
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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 ...
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues in favor of the Christ myth theory – the claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
The mina for the heavy royal talent weighed 1.01 kilograms (2.23 lbs), while that for the heavy common talent weighed only 984 grams (2.17 lbs); accordingly, the heavy common shekel would be about 15.87 grams (0.56 oz). [1]
Matthew 25:29 in the King James Version. The Matthew effect, sometimes called the Matthew principle, is the tendency of individuals to accrue social or economic success in proportion to their initial level of popularity, friends, and wealth.