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 ...

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 ...

This dramatic finding confirms Jewish historian Joseph ben Matityahu's theories positing that the work was only completed during the days of King Agrippa II (Herod's grandson), and its completion ...

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 ...

This finding matched the report of Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, who wrote that the Jewish monarch King Philip Herod, son of Herod the Great, transformed the small fishing village of ...

His son Agrippa II, the last Herod to make an appearance, presided over an inquiry into the troublesome case of Paul, who had been languishing in prison for two years. Unlike Jesus, Paul had ...

Philip strikes the reader as a doer. When Jesus called him, Philip found Nathanael and told him they “have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the ...