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A 2,000-year-old burial cave in Israel is continuing to stir debate. Who exactly was buried here? Was it one of Jesus’ female ...
This is not the first or last time we hear the power of the Herods evoked by Luke. With the Herodian family’s power comes the threat of violence over Jesus and his followers. Luke strikingly ...
New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty rather than a New Testament figure ...
In 37 BCE, the Hasmoneans fell to Herod, and the Herodian dynasty began. According to JNS, Regavim's "Preserving the Eternal" project noted that the demolition of the fortress had been ongoing for ...
The Herodian dynasty was propped up by the occupying Romans for their own purposes, but history consigns these rulers to the monster category for their wanton cruelty and violence to protect their ...
A Long-Neglected King of Judea. Although the grandson of the biblical villain Herod the Great, and the longest reigning and of the Herodian dynasty, Herod Agrippa II (fl. c. A.D. 28-c. 95) lacked a ...
A trip to Herodium, a Jerusalem archaeological park. A 30-minute drive from Israel’s capital, Herodium Park is well worth a visit. At the entrance is a cluster of boulders at the foot of the ...
Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have restored floor tiling that was part of the courtyards of King Herod’s Second Temple over 2,000 years ago.