Herod the Great may have created some impressive building projects, but his “great” title often pales when we analyze his rule. The true King of the Jews would take center stage in the Judean world ...

(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth. (The Conversation) — King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out his ...

Zora Neale Hurston was a philosemite. She believed that the Jews had been victims of stereotyping that started with Moses and that was promoted by the Bible and fed to children in Sunday school. Among ...

I happened to watch Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra (1934) for the first time today, and I was surprised when, a little more than an hour into the movie, Herod the Great showed up. He says that he has ...

The temple of Jerusalem as it appeared in 66 AD, about three and a half decades after the crucifixion of Jesus and just prior to the Roman destruction of temple and city during the First Jewish Revolt ...

History tells us the Roman Empire dominated life in the first century AD. After a time of unrest and upheaval in the first century BC, Rome changed from a Republic to an Empire and, in 45 BC, Julius ...

From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Herod the Great − though in the Gospel of Matthew, he wasn't so great. Hulton Archive via Getty Images King Herod will sound ...

King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after hearing that the “King of ...