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 ...

In The Life of Herod the Great, the titular king’s advisers and subjects alike have nothing but praise for the tall, handsome hero, complimenting his fighting prowess (“What a marvelous hurl ...

the 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple as part of King Herod the Great’s 37-20 BCE restoration and ...

(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 ...

They had to ask. Herod the Great, King of Judea, felt threatened when the Magi—wise men from the East—arrived in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?

14,000 Holy Infants were killed by King Herod in Bethlehem. When the time came for the Incarnation of the Son of God and His Birth of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, Magi in the East beheld a new star in ...

“Herod the king in his raging ... Historians know that this king built great cities and strong fortresses, the ruins of which still stand today, yet all his accomplishments seem hidden ...

The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by Pompey in 65 B.C., the appointment of King Herod the Great by the Romans and finally the crowning of Herod Antipas after he murders his father.

The devil's work is never done.

They returned home by another road as God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule for them as Judea’s king ...

A conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is giving rise to speculations that it is the same astronomical event as the biblical Star of Bethlehem. An expert explains why it is not. The differences in ...