Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

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The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

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And the Holy Innocents, victims of Herod’s persecution, give their lives in place of Jesus. They testify to him by their ...

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However, the large structure all around it, the large plaza, the porticos, the columns, the staircases, all of that, were built up by Herod the Great on a monumental scale, filling up, I think ...

December has multiple celebrations marked on the calendar. One of them is the Day of the Holy Innocents, which is celebrated ...

Modern scholars know quite a lot about Herod the Great, mostly because of the Judaean historian Flavius Josephus, who had access to court records. The Roman Emperor Augustus had given Herod the ...