Herod
Was King Herod the Great really so ‘great’? What history says about the bad guy of the Christmas story
By Aaron Gale — December 12, 2023
(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth.
New book plumbs the role of the Herods in forming early Jewish, Christian views
By Yonat Shimron — August 17, 2021
(RNS) — In his book “The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession,” Bruce Chilton, a professor of religion at Bard College, places the dynastic family that ruled Judea and Israel for the Romans front and center.
Jesus may have been tried here: Archaeologists uncover Herod’s palace
By Michele Chabin — January 5, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) Discovered under an abandoned prison building that is part of the Tower of David Museum grounds, the trial site is one piece of a vast excavation undertaken by archaeologists from 1999 to 2000 but sealed off for the past 14 years.
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