dizziness on Nostr: The garden in Genesis has no prices. God gives, Adam and Eve tend, nothing is traded. ...

The garden in Genesis has no prices. God gives, Adam and Eve tend, nothing is traded.

Scarcity enters in chapter three. Need, surplus, and something to measure both accumulate across twenty chapters before Abraham weighs four hundred shekels of silver at a gate in Hebron to buy a grave.

That weighing is the Bible's first monetary transaction. After it: a boy sold for twenty shekels, Passover plunder redirected into a tabernacle, a hidden gold bar buried in a tent, 666 talents filling Solomon's treasury, a denarius with Caesar's face, two bronze coins worth almost nothing, thirty pieces the priests refused to touch.

https://christophergillespie.substack.com/p/when-nothing-had-a-price?r=eye8m