[lbo-talk] Right wing Israeli political party goes to Arab part of Jaffa and hands out leaflets calling Arabs to emigrate for money...fighting commences

[Jim Devine]

I found the following by googling: >In Judges 17, the prophet, Micah
hires a Levite as his personal priest. The price for the Levite's
services was ten shekels (of silver) and a shirt.< from
http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=282

this might be where the negative connotation that I perceived came
from, since it seems to be about religion for sale. Or maybe it comes
from anti-semitism.

On 3/23/06, Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org> wrote:
>
> Huh...the word shekel has a negative connotation?
>
> How is it used in that way?
>
> Bryan
>
> Jim Devine wrote:
> > what is the historical origin of the fact that the word "shekel" has
> > negative connotations?
> > Jim Devine
> >
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