Six Pieces Of Silver

Pieces of Silver

Walking in a winter wonder land was as perfect as the song implied until a corpse is dropped in an outdoor ice cathedral, and Rose is hurled into another set of circumstances that will alter her life forever. Like ripples rising from shadowy depths to stir the surface, everything in Benton begins to change with her discovery of the unidentified body. Secrets buried in an intricacy of deceit and betrayal threatens to destroy more than reputations if truth is exposed to the light. Someone knows all about the cadaver, and theyre watching. Another will do anything it takes to keep the secrets locked away and theyve killed before. Austin knew the trouble was starting when the coins came and based on the ancient inscription that found its way to him through time and space, he didnt let his wheelchair get in the way of helping a friend.

The Thirty Pieces of Silver

The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe discusses many interconnected topics relating to the most perfidious monetary transaction in history: the betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver. According to medieval legend, these coins had existed since the time of Abraham’s father and had been used in many transactions recorded in the Bible. This book documents fifty specimens of coins which were venerated as holy relics in medieval and modern churches and monasteries of Europe, from Valencia to Uppsala. Most of these relics are ancient Greek silver coins in origin mounted in precious reliquaries or used for the distribution of their wax imprints believed to have healing powers. Drawing from a wide range of historical sources, from hagiography to numismatics, this book will appeal to students and academics researching Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern History, Theology, as well as all those interested in the function of relics throughout Christendom. The Thirty Pieces of Silver is a study that invites meditation on the highly symbolic and powerful role of money through coins which were the price, value, and measure of Christ and which, despite being the most abject objects, managed to become relics.

Pieces of silver, by the author of 'Whiter than snow'.