12-02-2011, 08:37 PM
Quote:It's the tax decree of Julius Caesar, quoted in Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.202ff: 25% per biennium, 10% per year, and no taxes in the sabbat year. That's 19.3%. There's confirmation from Hyginus (205L) that the Jews paid one fifth.Theodosius the Great post=300992 Wrote:Could you please clarify, Jona? 19.3% of what? On income?Yes; it's mentioned in Josephus somewhere, and you have to take the sabbat-year into account. I will check.
It was converted from a tithe into a money tax by Quirinius (JA 18.3). A reduction was asked, says Tacitus, in 17 AD (Annals 2.42). Immediately after, Caiaphas became high priest, and it has been argued that he was a member of the embassy to Rome.