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

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

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 ...