BALTIMORE – King Herod, the bloodthirsty Judean ruler who reputedly tried to kill the infant Jesus, died an excruciating death brought on by kidney disease and finished off by gangrene, a medical ...
The discovery this week of the tomb of King Herod will thrill the dedicated band of scholars and writers who see every scrap of archaeological evidence that surfaces from the Holy Land of 2000 years ...
BALTIMORE, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Medical researchers believe they have solved the 2,000-year-old mystery of what killed biblical king Herod the Great, whose bloody reign over ancient Judea, the Bible says, ...
Herod the Great − though in the Gospel of Matthew, he wasn't so great. Hulton Archive via Getty Images King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when ...
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Who were all the Herods in the New Testament?
When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod. There were different rulers called Herod who formed ...
Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said Wednesday they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle ...
Three recent books portray Herod more positively than he is generally depicted. But Matthew 2 is still important. In terms of wealth, power, and influence, Herod the Great rivaled King Solomon as the ...
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Counting Herod’s victims
The three Herods mentioned in the Holy Scripture were all notorious for their cruelty. The first was Herod of Ascalon, aka ...
Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents—the baby boys that Matthew records were slain on the orders of Herod the Great in his attempt to kill the infant Jesus. Did he really? Sometimes we hear ...
It being Christmastime, naturally, thoughts turn to King Herod, one of the great villains of history. Without Herod — the erstwhile King of Judea — there would have been no mandated Census forcing ...
COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous Biblical ruler who in the Christmas legend forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty of modern heirs driving our hemisphere's migrant crisis today.
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