{"id":35584,"date":"2018-08-20T21:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35584"},"modified":"2018-08-20T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:49:26","slug":"how-much-is-a-talent-unit-of-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/how-much-is-a-talent-unit-of-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is a talent (unit of mass)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about antiquity: the tutor brings up the ancient unit of mass <em>talent<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p><em>Talent<\/em> is a measure used for precious metals in the Old Testament &#8211; for instance, in 1 Kings 10.10. How much was a talent?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a talent, back then, may have been as low as 30kg, but as high as 60kg. 30kg seems the more likely number for the days of Solomon, who apparently lived around 1000BCE.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talent_(measurement)\">wikipedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblical_and_Talmudic_units_of_measurement#Weight_and_coins\">wikipedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.convert-me.com\/en\/convert\/history_weight\/bibtalent.html?u=bibtalent&#038;v=1\">www.convert-me.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/solomon\/\">www.ancient.eu\/solomon<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about antiquity: the tutor brings up the ancient unit of mass talent. Talent is a measure used for precious metals in the Old Testament &#8211; for instance, in 1 Kings 10.10. How much was a talent? Apparently, a talent, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/how-much-is-a-talent-unit-of-mass\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How much is a talent (unit of mass)?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35588,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions\/35588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}