Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

According to Ezra I and II Chronicles 36:22, Persian king Cyrus the Great ... the name Anaq (the word for “giant” in Hebrew is anak) purported to belong to a daughter of Adam. Herod’s ...

(page 1) In Biblical history, Herod “the Great,” Rome’s client king of Judaea (ruled 40 - 4 BCE) was an evil tyrant. There is no actual evidence for the atrocity he is most remembered for, the ...