On a day in April, not a single history buff roamed between the columns of the palace of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee; no one was strolling through what remains of the Byzantine cathedral ...

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The basic New Testament story goes that the tetrarch Herod Antipas gets so aroused by his stepdaughter’s dancing that he promises her anything she wants, up to half of his quarter-kingdom.

According to Jewish priest, scholar, and historian Flavius Josephus (AD 37/38), Salome was daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, a ruler, (tetrarch) of Galilee, in Palestine. In the ...

After denouncing Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee, John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded at the request of the tetrarch's stepdaughter.

Names of note in the Jewish and Gentile world of his day appear in Luke’s pages; in addition to the emperors, we meet the Roman governors Quirinius, Pilate, Sergius Paullus, Gallio, Felix, and Festus; ...

But distrust of the Roman-appointed tetrarch – or regional ruler – Herod Antipas was even greater. Twenty years pass, and John has a different devotion still fueled by faith and the hope of ...

When the marriage between AMOS and MARY MAGDALENE turns out to be childless, he casts her out and gets a divorce. Mary has to leave Magdala. She befriends SILVANO, a Roman prefect, who promises her a ...

Herod Antipas smiled and nodded with approval. His step-daughter Salome* swayed and twirled in front of him and his birthday-party guests, her graceful figure filling them with longing. Her ...

Joanna (whose name means “God has been gracious”) was the wife of Chuza, the steward of Herod Antipas. This Herod was the tetrarch of Galilee (Lk 3:1) and the son of Herod the Great, the ...