Which ancient Lebanese city issued the coins known as shekels, used to pay taxes in the Temple of Jerusalem?
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Tyrian shekel Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or tetradrachmas were coins of Tyre, which in the Roman Empire took on an unusual role as the medium of payment for the Temple tax in Jerusalem, and subsequently gained notoriety as a likely mode of payment for Judas Iscariot.
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Tyre, Lebanon Tyre (Arabic: صور‎ ‎ , "Ṣūr"; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤅𐤓 , "Ṣur"; <a href="Hebrew%20language">Hebrew</a>: צוֹר‎ , "Tsor"; <a href="Tiberian%20Hebrew">Tiberian Hebrew</a> , "Ṣōr"; <a href="Akkadian%20language">Akkadian</a>: , "Ṣurru"; <a href="Ancient%20Greek">Greek</a>: Τύρος, "Týros"; <a href="Turkish%20language">Turkish</a>: "Sur" ; <a href="Latin%20language">Latin</a>: "Tyrus" , Armenian Տիր [Dir]), sometimes <a href="romanization">romanized</a> as Sour, is a city in the <a href="South%20Governorate">South Governorate</a> of <a href="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>. There were approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003. However, the government of Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932, so an accurate statistical accounting is not possible. Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean and is located about 80 km south of Beirut. The name of the city means "rock" after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. The adjective for Tyre is "Tyrian", and the inhabitants are "Tyrians".
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Gibeah Gibeah ( ; Hebrew: גבעה‎ "Giv'a") is a place name appearing in several books of the Bible. It is generally identified with a hill in Jerusalem, on the outskirts of the Pisgat Ze'ev and Shuafat neighborhoods, known as Tell el-Ful. However, this identification was challenged by Israel Finkelstein in 2011.
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Beit Chabab Beit Chabab (Syriac: Bet Shebāba, Arabic: بيت شباب‎ ‎ ) pronounced "Beit Chabéb" is a mountain village 24 km north of Beirut in Lebanon.
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Allar, Jerusalem Allar (Arabic: علار‎ ‎ ) or 'Allar el-Fawqa ("Upper Allar") was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem near Wadi Surar ("Valley of Pebbles"), along "Wadi Tannur". The name was shared by the twin village of Allar al-Sifla ("Lower Allar") or Khirbat al-Tannur, with official imperial ledgers often listing them both under the single entry of Allar.
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Ananiah Ananiah, in the Bible, is a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor ( ). It is one of the localities inhabited by the tribe of Benjamin after the return from the Babylonian Exile. Ananiah, whose name means "protected by God," was identified by the 19th century French traveler V. Guérin, author of "Description de La Jude'e", with the present-day Beit Hanina, located 3 miles north of Jerusalem. Edward Robinson concurred, but W.F. Albright maintained that Ananiah is the village of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem. Some modern scholars also identify Ananiah with al-Eizariya.
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Bodai Bodai is a Lebanese town in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, situated west of the Litani River in the foothills of Mount Lebanon. Bodai is located 15 km (9 miles) northwest of the ancient city of Baalbek and 26 km (16 miles) from the Lebanese–Syrian border and is 90 kilometers (55.926 mi) away from the capital of Beirut. Bodai, which sits in the foothills of the Mount Lebanon range, has a spectacular view across the Beqaa Valley toward the city of Baalbek, and the Anti-Lebanon range that divides Lebanon from Syria.
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Onias IV Onias IV (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ‎ ‎ "Ḥōniyyō") is the designation given to the son of Onias III and the lawful heir of the legitimate high priests. He had reason to hope that the victory of the national party under Judas Maccabeus would place him in the office of his fathers; but being disappointed in his expectations by the election of Alcimus, he went to Egypt to seek aid against the tyranny of the Seleucids at the court of the Ptolemies, their political enemies. About 154 BCE, with the permission of Ptolemy VI Philometor, he built at Leontopolis a temple which, though comparatively small, was modelled on that of Jerusalem, and was called by the name of its founder. Onias doubtless expected that after the desecration of the Temple at Jerusalem by the Syrians the Egyptian temple would be regarded as the only legitimate one. But the traditional teachings of Judaism, as contained in the Mishnah, concede no legitimacy to the temple of Onias; in fact, even for the Egyptian Jews the latter did not possess the same importance as did the Temple of Jerusalem.
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German Colony, Haifa The German Colony ("HaMoshava HaGermanit") (Hebrew: המושבה הגרמנית‎ ) was established in Haifa in 1868 by the German Templers. It was the first of several colonies established by the group in the Holy Land. Others were founded in Sarona near Jaffa, Galilee and Jerusalem.
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Church of the Holy Archangels, Jerusalem Church of the Holy Archangels (in Armenian (in Armenian Սրբոց Հրեշտակապետաց եկեղեցի, transliterated as "Srbots Hreštakapetats yekeğetsi") also known as Deir Al Zeitoun, is an Armenian church in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Situated on the south east edge of the Armenian quarter, it was founded in the 12th century. According to tradition this site was the house of High Priest Annas. One of the altars, according to tradition, marking the place of the prison of Christ.
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Solomon's Stables Solomon's Stables (Hebrew: אורוות שלמה‎ ‎ ) was an underground vaulted space now used as a Muslim prayer hall, some 600 square yards (500 square metres) in area, at the bottom of stairs which lead down from the al-Aqsa Mosque, under the Temple Mount, to the base of the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Solomon's Stables are located under the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount, 12½ metres below the courtyard and feature twelve rows of pillars and arches. In December 1996 the Waqf converted the area into a prayer hall by adding lights and floor tiles, and renamed it the Marwani Prayer Hall (Arabic: المصلى المرواني‎ ‎ ).
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Poor tithe The poor tithe, or poor man's tithe (Hebrew: "ma'sar ani"), also referred to as the pauper's tithe or the third tithe, reflects an obligation to set aside one tenth of produce grown in the third and sixth years of the seven-year sabbatical cycle for the benefit of the Levites and the poor, in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Egyptian gold stater The gold stater (Egyptian: "nfr-nb", "Nefer-nub", meaning "fine gold") was the first coin ever minted in ancient Egypt, around 360 BCE during the reign of pharaoh Teos of the 30th Dynasty.
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Aphik (Asher) Aphik or Afik (Hebrew: אפיק‎ ‎ ), in the Bible, is a city in the Tribe of Asher from which the Canaanites were not driven out, identified with the Aphaca of classical times, the modern Afka, or alternatively with Tel Afek near Haifa. "And Asher did not dispossess the ones living in Accho, and the ones living in Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob" ( ).
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List of rulers of Ammon The following is a list of rulers currently known from the history of the ancient Levantine kingdom Ammon. Ammon was originally ruled by a king, called the "king of the children of Ammon" (Ammonite: 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤁𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍; <a href="Hebrew%20language">Hebrew</a>: ‎ ‎ "melekh bənê-ʿAmmôn"). After the conquest of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Empires, Ammon was maintained by an administrator ( "ʿebhedh", literally "servant"; Greek: ἡγούμενος "hēgoúmenos", "leader"). Only a modest number of Ammonite kings are known today, mostly from the Bible and epigraphic inscriptions.
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Beit Mery Beit Mery (Arabic: بيت مري‎ ‎ ) is a Lebanese town overlooking the capital Beirut. The town has been a summer mountain resort since the times of the Phoenicians and later the Romans. The name derives from Aramaic and means "The house of my Lord". On one of the three hills of Beit Mery (Southern end of town) along the Lebanon Western mountain range are the ruins of the old Phoenician and Roman temples that were erected in the same general area in what is now known as Deir El-Qala'a (دير القلعة). At present, a Christian church and monastery sit on top of parts of the old Roman temple. Les Scouts Du Liban Groupe Sainte Marie Beit Mery is one of the biggest movement in town and it is located in College des Freres since 1969.
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Mene (unit) The mĕnē (also mina, Aramaic) (Hebrew: מנה‎ ) is an ancient Mesopotamian unit of weight for gold or silver and one of the earliest written words for money. The mĕnē, like the shekel, was also a unit of currency. In ancient Greece, it originally equalled 70 drachmae and later was increased to 100 drachmae. The Greek word "mna" was borrowed from Semitic; compare Hebrew "māneh", Aramaic "mĕnē", Syriac "manyā", Ugaritic "mn", and Akkadian "manū".
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Birket Israel Birket Israel (trans. "Pool of Israel") also Birket Israil or Birket Isra'in, abbreviated from Birket Asbât Beni Israìl (trans. "Pool of the Tribes of the Children of Israel") was a public cistern located on the north-eastern corner of the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem. The structure is believed to have been built by the Romans for use as a water reservoir and also to protect the northern wall of the Temple Mount. Arab locals have known it by this name since at least 1857.
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Phoenician port of Beirut The Phoenician port of Beirut or Phoenician Harbour of Beirut, or archaeological site BEY039 located between Rue Allenby and Rue Foch in Beirut, Lebanon. Studies have shown that the Bronze Age waterfront lay around 300 m behind the modern port due to coastal regularisation and siltation. It was excavated and reported on by Josette Elayi and Hala Sayegh in 2000 and determined to date to the Iron Age III and Persian periods. Two nineteenth century Ottoman docks were also unearthed during construction, just to the north of this area at archaeological sites BEY018 and BEY019.
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Ashkelon shipwrecks In 1998, an Underwater Survey conducted off the coast of Israel by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA), discovered the wreckage of a Hellenistic or Early Roman ship. The ship is believed to have sunk sometime in the 1st or 2nd century BC. The wreck itself is located approximately 100 m off the coast of Ashkelon, Israel at a depth of around 3–4 m in the Mediterranean Sea. The city of Ashkelon was once a bustling trade port however multiple ancient reports claim that Ashkelon was a poor site for a port, citing the frequent storms and lack of a safe harbor.
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Nahalat Shiv'a Nahalat Shiv'a (Hebrew: נחלת שבעה‎ ‎ ) is a former courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. It was the third neighborhood built outside the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1860s. Today it is a crowded pedestrian promenade lined with sidewalk cafes. It is considered part of the larger Nachlaot neighborhood.
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Zion Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן‎ ‎ Tsiyyon), also transliterated Sion, Sayon, Syon, Tzion or Tsion, is a placename often used as a synonym for Jerusalem. The word is first found in which dates from c.630–540 BC according to modern scholarship. It commonly referred to a specific hill in Jerusalem, (Mount Zion) located to the south of Mount Moriah or the Temple Mount, on which stood a Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David and was named the City of David. The hill ("mount") is one of the many squat hills that form Jerusalem, to include the Mount of Olives etc. In the past many centuries, that was the only section of Jerusalem inside city wall that was the Jewish quarter.