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FISCUS JUDAICUS:
By : Richard Gottheil Samuel Krauss The yearly Temple tax of half a
shekel prescribed by the Law (Ex. xxx. 13; compare Sheḳ. i. 1), and
which the Jews of the Diaspora contributed during the time of the
Second Temple. It was diverted by Vespasian, after the destruction of
the sanctuary in 70 C.E., to the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome,
the amount being two drachmas (Josephus, "B. J." vii. 6, § 6; Dion
Cassius, lxvi. 7). This was an affront to Jewish religious feeling.
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Thanks. I heard about this w/o the historical sources.

My belief is conservative: the NT was written (w/ a few exception)
before the destruction of the Temple. My argument is the quite unanimous
testimony of the Church fathers, and for the Synoptic Gospels the fact
that the Jewish society is described as living entity, there is crowd,
there are Pharisee, Sadducee, scribes, Judeans, Galileans etc instead as
in John mostly plain "Jews"

laszlo


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skanary@yahoo.com wrote:

> I ask: "Mispronounced" according to whom? In what language?


> Because "LORD" isn't a "spelling" of YHWH at all, it is a
> *substitution* of the Name with another word altogether. Surely you
> know this?

You seem hung up of the American idea of a "name" which is
a random bit of phonics we parents give to our kids because
we like the sound of the phonics or because our great uncle
was assigned the same phonics. I was named "Bart" because
the lineage of eldest sons in my family always have an "ar"
in them. (And maybe, in a fit of clairvoyance, my parents
realized it was an anagram for "brat".) My name derives from
"Bartholomew" which has some meaning in Hebrew, I suppose
(it's something like "son of furrows" which maybe means
Mom gave birth to me while she was planting corn.) But
that meaning didn't cross my parents minds when they named me.
They were after the "ar", mostly.


But in most places and at most times, names are/were chosen
because they meant something. God's names say something
about Him. The things He reveals to us about Himself are
those things which inform us about Him and His plan of
salvation. So He calls Himself "I AM", and this speaks
volumes about His nature. (In particular, it contrasts
against pantheistic ideas.)

The name "smith" meant something not too long ago. I
reckon that someone in the ancestory was the village
blacksmith. In French the equivalent name is Lefevre.

Hmmmm. Is that a whole different word because it is
spelled and pronounced d