King Herod’s legacy as an innovative builder was ... began in 167 B.C. against the ruling Seleucid kings was headed by a family of high priests from the Temple in Jerusalem.

Perhaps the personification of materialism in the time of Jesus was in the person of King Herod, called "The Great." There were several successive King Herods in a dynastic family that ruled ...

But a king’s one decision can also bring misery to tens, hundreds, thousands or even millions of people. Here is a historical example. Herod was the Roman-appointed King of Judea when a baby boy ...

Indeed Christianity's links with Africa started nearly two thousand years ago, just weeks after the birth of Jesus when according to the bible, the holy family fled the wrath of King Herod.

The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by Pompey in 65 B.C., the appointment of King Herod the Great by the Romans and finally the crowning of Herod Antipas after he murders his father.

They returned home by another road as God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule for them as Judea’s king ...