Herod saved his people from famine in the mid-20s B.C. Although his reign was largely a time of peace and prosperity ... Christian scripture as the king reigning during Jesus’ ministry and ...

Most scholars estimate that Jesus was born between 6 and 4 B.C.E. – during Herod ... villainizes Herod, whose son, also called King Herod, or Herod Antipas, was ruling at the time of Jesus ...

A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another person from his time: Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, a new study finds. The idea ...

Impressive architectural projects and oppressive cruelty — these are the legacies of the complex Judean king ... civil war, during which the kingdom became a Roman client state. Herod’s ...

But where precisely was the king entombed? At the summit of Herodium ... The borders of Judea were quiet during Herod's reign, enabling him to undertake an ambitious building program that brought ...

Herod's Pillar ... in order to decorate the Second Temple as part of King Herod the Great’s 37-20 BCE restoration and renovation works, during which he also enlarged the Temple Mount.

But as word spreads of a new, God-chosen leader, the tyrannical King Herod (played by two-time Oscar-winner Anthony ... years after the birth of Jesus—during the Third Crusade, in which England ...