Rome, on the other hand, needed Herod as much as Herod needed Rome, whose culture and language the Jewish ... his son Herod Antipas—also infamous in Christian scripture as the king reigning ...

(page 1) In Biblical history, Herod “the Great,” Rome’s client king of Judaea (ruled 40 - 4 BCE ... (Pork-loving Romans were baffled by the Jewish dietary laws.) Herod was born about 73 BCE. His ...

It hints that Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee ... an enchanting dance on Herod's birthday to the delight of the king and his guests. The New Testament documents, "The king said to the ...

After scaling the mountain and comparing his observations with those of the first century Jewish-Roman historian ... traveling Smithsonian exhibition "King Herod's Dream," cautions that "it ...

when the tyrannical King Herod ordered the execution of all male babies under two in the city’s vicinity This was to ensure that the newborn Jewish Messiah, who the Magi had told the monarch ...