Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

Herod the Great and his son became the New Testament ... Seleucid kings was headed by a family of high priests from the Temple in Jerusalem. Known as the Maccabees, their establishment of ...

Thus, here we have, at Caesarea Maritima, a Roman Governor building a temple in honor of the Roman Emperor. Tell me a little bit about Herod the Great as a person. I mean, he was a man of enormous ...

The story in Matthew’s gospel, that the rumor of a new-born king produced a violent reaction, feels typical of Herod: just in ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the hated king On a sticky Wednesday in 1973, the writer Alice Walker waded ...

Robinson's Arch is visible in the nearest corner of the mount. First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod the Great in 20 BCE and not completed ...

In an interview for the film’s official press notes, Caruso said, “Herod was a great empire builder ... for Herod’s first temple shown in the film, the production “adapted a large set ...