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 ...

Everyone who’s ever gone to Israel seems to come back saying, “It makes the Bible come alive.” I longed to experience that for myself but never had the opportunity until last month, when the Israeli ...

When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod. There were different rulers called Herod who formed part of the background history of Jesus and the New Testament. This is the ...

On Friday Dec. 28, we observed the Feast of the Holy Innocents, which commemorates the young children murdered by the ruthless Herod “the Great.” In addition to ordering the slaying of all boys aged ...

COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous Biblical ruler who in the Christmas legend forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty of modern heirs driving our hemisphere's migrant crisis today.

BALTIMORE — Historians remember him as a brutal, unpredictable, paranoid and cruel leader. During his 36-year bloody reign as king of ancient Judea, Herod the Great ordered the executions of one wife ...

Historians remember him as a brutal, unpredictable, paranoid and cruel leader. During his 36-year bloody reign as king of ancient Judea, Herod the Great ordered the executions of one wife and three ...

Palm Sunday is perhaps the only day when the liturgy has two Gospels. Because of how the liturgy of Palm Sunday developed, the Gospel of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem is read at the start of Mass in ...

(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 ...

In part 1 of this article, Marshall Shelley describes what his trip to Israel taught him about Herod the Great. Here in part 2, he describes what he learned about Jesus. One of the best reasons to ...