The Half-Shekel Offering in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature

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Updated by: 
Charles Stover
Research notes: 
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Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Liver, Jacob
year: 
1963
Full title: 

The Half-Shekel Offering in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Harvard Theological Review
Volume: 
56
Issue / Series Volume: 
3
Abbreviated Series Name: 
HTR
Pages: 
173-198
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

It is still an accepted opinion of biblical scholarship that the regulation governing the offering of half a shekel in Exodus 30:11–16 belongs to one of the late trends of the Priestly Code. This text in Exodus, which enjoins upon the people of Israel the offering of half a shekel for the service of the tent of meeting in the desert, is thought also to reflect the conditions of the early Second Commonwealth, when an annual tax of half a shekel was collected for the maintenance of the sanctuary.

Hebrew bible: 
Book: 
Exodus
Chapter(s): 
30
Verse(s): 
11-16
URL: 
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/halfshekel-offering-in-biblical-and-postbiblical-literature/5A72FC3B784AFC24DCA96B0B8D9018B3
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