RE: Most Misunderstood Story (4 parts).
A common Old Testament contention is when king Saul demands a dowry of 100 Philistine foreskins and David delivers 200, to marry his daughter Michal.
Due to modern sensitivities, many are squeamish to the idea of anatomical collection, especially of the given appendage. However it's not an issue even if literal: collecting proof of kills that the enemy have and your people don't.
This however isn't quite what it seems. If we look at the parallel text Josephus Antiquities 6:197,203. 7:25 the Greek instead says "heads". Supporting this was understood as an idiom equivocal to the common idiom "collect 200 heads/ scalps" denoting a required count rather than collection (US literally paid to scalp Amerindians).
Given this, we are considering using stipraeputia (stipendium praeputia) to signal the intended semantic of a countable martial tally, whilst preserving the literal speech. Giving range for literal (foreskin), euphemistic (head) and figurative (tally).