2007-01-29 05:31:36 · 12 answers · asked by Sean 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
3000 shekels
or 75 U.S. lbs.
The value would depend on whether it is gold or silver.
When Revelation talks about hail of a talent each, they are talking about 75lb hailstones.
grace2u
2007-01-29 05:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I was curious and started to check, and the answers are all over the place. I put a couple in below.
"It is impossible to be exact about their value, and different kinds of talent were in use. However, even the lowest value for a talent puts it as worth several thousand denarii, and a denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour. So a talent was the value of many years of work by an ordinary person."
" If a talent was worth six thousand denarii, then it would take a day laborer twenty years to earn so much-- perhaps five hundred-thousand dollars."
2007-01-29 05:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by HolyLamb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About a hundred pounds. So you take whatever the piece weight of the particular precious metal involved, say: Five hundred dollars for a troy ounce, multiply that by twelve as there's only twelve ounces to a troy pound, then multiply that by one hundred. About sixty thousand dollars or thereabouts. The historical conversion, that amount then, compared to today, will be considerably more. In 1854, what ten dollars could buy then is roundly equal to thirty thousand dollars today.
2007-01-29 05:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 16:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rappers earned very little money in Jesus's day. Personally, I think Jesus should have cashed in on his success like everyone else has...typical of show biz...he got nothing, but the producers get it all!
2007-01-29 05:35:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what the talent was.
Could she sing as well as strip?
2007-01-29 05:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a lot of money - not really sure of an exact amount but it was more then most would make in a year
but the point of that parable is to not waste what God has given you
2007-01-29 05:37:31 · answer #7 · answered by servant FM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have read that it was worth over a thousand dollars, but I don't know how this was figured.
http://dictionary.crossmap.com/definition/talent.htm
2007-01-29 05:36:40 · answer #8 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A free ticket to heaven
2007-01-29 05:37:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sheriff of R&S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bottle crown, two paperclips and a chewed gum.
2007-01-29 05:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by cannabia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋