For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Everybody, it seems, is out to get Jesus. This time it’s the Herodians and disciples of the Pharisees who conspire to trap him. Their ...

Executions followed, but the Judeans either massacred or drove away the local Roman garrison, and the Herodians and Roman leader fled. Roman legionnaires from Syria were ordered in to quash the ...

As we approach Christmas, we think of the Heroes and the Herodians. The Heroes were the women, like Elizabeth and Mary, who bore children and all who looked to the coming of Jesus. The Herodians ...