The palace-fortress was entered from below by ... and the longer-reigning Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee. Herod Antipas features prominently in the New Testament where his actions contribute ...

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

Here, Herod carved out of bedrock the largest palatial complex of i t s day in the entire Roman Empire. Serving as a summer palace as well as his eventual resting place, Herodium contained ...

Pilate emerged from the palace along with Jesus ... Galileans were under the jurisdiction of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, son of the late builder. Herod was a Hellenized Jew, whom Pilate ...

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 ...