Rome, on the other hand, needed Herod as much as Herod needed Rome, whose culture and language the Jewish ... his son Herod Antipas—also infamous in Christian scripture as the king reigning ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...

Ruthlessly lavish in his lifetime and a villain of Jewish and Christian narratives alike, the biblical King Herod has captured the world’s imagination anew with the discovery of his tomb outside ...

While some Jewish religious leaders and people ... an earlier version of this story referred to King Herod the Great rather ...

It was one of the capital cities of the Galilee and it's the first capital of Herod's son, who is an independent Jewish client king of Rome ... by Herod's son Antipas, when he went there in ...

But, at his death, his kingdom, which was the largest extent for the Jewish state since the time, really, of David and Solomon, was subdivided among three of his sons. One son, Herod Antipas ...

Herod's Pillar, or the Finger of Og ... Work on the edifice was completed in the days of Persian king Darius I, ushering in a period of Jewish revival and returning the Israelites to the area ...

King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule for them as Judea’s king instead of a Roman governor. For many people, Herod was not an acceptable ruler because he did ...