and Herod Antipas (who orders the crucifixion of Jesus). Read our latest issue or browse back issues. Bruce Chilton aims to remedy that, and he does so in easy, readable prose that moves the reader ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

The Gospel story further villainizes Herod, whose son, also called King Herod, or Herod Antipas, was ruling at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion around 30 C.E. Herod may have been a splendid ...

(“Can anything good come from Nazareth?”) History remembers Archelaus’s brother, Herod Antipas, mainly because of his interaction with the scraggly prophet John the Baptist. John loudly ...

It hints that Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee, was led towards a fatal decision against John the Baptist by his wife, Herodias's daughter. Herodias had been the wife of Antipas's brother ...

and the longer-reigning Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee. Herod Antipas features prominently in the New Testament where his actions contribute to the executions of both Jesus and John the Baptist.

The Gospel story further villainizes Herod, whose son, also called King Herod, or Herod Antipas, was ruling at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion around 30 C.E. Herod may have been a splendid builder and ...

The Gospel story further villainizes Herod, whose son, also called King Herod, or Herod Antipas, was ruling at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion around 30 CE. Herod may have been a splendid builder ...