Blood money
Blood money denotes on the one hand an atonement that a murderer or manslaughter pays as compensation to the next of kin of the victim (in Germanic law wergeld ), on the other hand a reward for reporting a murderer or criminal.
"Blood Money" in the New Testament
In the New Testament the money that Judas received for the betrayal of Jesus is referred to as "blood money" (Greek τιμη αιματος = time haimatos, Latin pretium sanguinis , literally: "price of the blood") ( Mt 27.6 EU ) . According to ancient Jewish law, priests could not accept such money as an offering. However, this is not blood money in the sense of the law on retaliation described above, but a bribe .
Trivia
The reparations that the Federal Republic of Germany paid to Israel under the reparation agreement of 1953 , which Konrad Adenauer had agreed with David Ben Gurion , were initially referred to by Jewish critics as blood money .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Krcsmarik: Contributions to illuminate the Islamic criminal law, with regard to theory and practice in Turkey , in: Journal of the German Oriental Society Vol. 58, 1904, p 539
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia 1851, Vol. 3, p. 1, online
- ^ Blood money , Duden online