who examined Herod’s case history. The disease would have killed the king in a week or less. “It’s a very unpleasant way to die,” said Dr. Philip Mackowiak, the director of the annual ...

King Solomon, Zerubbabel and Herod the Great share a unique distinction in history – they each had the privilege of building the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Yet while the Bible tells us much about ...

the wife of his brother Herod Philip I. When John the Baptist reproached Herod for his sin, Herod imprisoned him in a cell carved into the side of a mountain fortress in what is now the Kingdom of ...