Herod the Great − though in the Gospel of Matthew, he wasn't so great. Hulton Archive via Getty Images King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when ...

HEROD—Jacob S. Minkin—Macmillan ($2.50). In the New Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two years of ...

No doubt about it, King Herod has a bad name. Historians may doubt the passage in Matthew that has him ordering the slaughter of Bethlehem infants in hopes of eliminating the newborn Messiah, but as ...

Recent archeological excavations in Jerusalem show that, contrary to popular understanding, King Herod was not solely responsible for constructing the Western Wall. Israel?s Antiques Authority ...

It being Christmastime, naturally, thoughts turn to King Herod, one of the great villains of history. Without Herod — the erstwhile King of Judea — there would have been no mandated Census forcing ...

When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. Saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have ...

Israel’s largest archaeological expedition–the excavation of the ancient palace of King Herod of Judea, on the Metzada Chiff north of Sodom on the Dead Sea–got underway today under the direction of Dr ...

When first published in 1999, this biography of the ill-famed Herod the Great of Judea (fl., c. 74 BC-4 BC) the caused a bit of stir by arguing that the king had not been the villain long reviled by ...

Archeologists from Hebrew University say they have found the tomb of Herod the Great, the Roman client-king of Judea, after a 35-year search at the desert site where his palace once stood. Herod, who ...

Rome and Jerusalem, the birthplaces of modern Western civilization, share an infamously bloody history. The destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman general Titus in 70 C.E. effectively excised ...

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 ...

(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 ...