Despite being accused of murdering his own wife, children and countless other innocents, King Herod is still known as 'the ...

the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after hearing that the “King of the Jews” has just been born. Tricked by the Magi, the wise men whom Herod had sent to determine where the infant ...

King Herod was troubled, and the people were troubled ... Astrologers, stargazers, galaxy-chasers, the Magi must have been troubled by what they saw in the sky. But their uncertainty turned ...

Upon arriving in Jerusalem, the Magi find a rather confusing and perhaps discouraging situation. The reigning king, Herod, knows nothing of the birth of this new King and seems threatened and ...

They had to ask. Herod the Great, King of Judea, felt threatened when the Magi—wise men from the East—arrived in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?

And unlike Rudolph or the apocryphal little drummer boy, the Magi can actually be found in the Scriptures. We learn of their journey in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 2: In the time of King Herod ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. Many Christmas ...

Israel's national museum said Tuesday it will open what it calls the world's first exhibition devoted to the architectural legacy of biblical King Herod, the Jewish proxy monarch who ruled ...

But then a financial savior appeared, in the unlikely form of Herod the Great, King of Judea. The year was 14 B.C., and the citizens of Olympia, the city and religious shrine in Greece where the ...

Originally titled Bethlehem, Zero AD is set to adapt the Massacre of the Innocents, when the tyrannical King Herod ordered the ... Jewish Messiah, who the Magi had told the monarch about, didn ...

But where precisely was the king entombed? At the summit of Herodium? At the base? Inside the mountain itself? Josephus didn't say. By the late 1800s, Herod's tomb had become one of biblical ...

The film, which stars Oscar Isaac as Jesus, Pierce Brosnan as Pontius Pilate, Mark Hamill as King Herod, Forest Whitaker as Peter and Ben Kingsley as High Priest Caiaphas, is cleverly framed as ...