Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure that a man would risk his life on it.” — Martin Luther ...

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

The takeover of the ancient site illustrates the expansion of settlers and the Israeli army presence in this Palestinian ...

NEW YORK – Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Every night I wake up with ...

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Based on the biblical story of the Jewish princess who was the daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, “Salome” provoked a scandalous reaction to its 1905 premiere. It is best ...

The city was dank from an unseasonal 24-hour storm that started on the Friday after three prisoners were crucified. The trio included Jesus of Nazareth, a charismatic preacher who had stirred ...

Another villain is Herod Antipas, who was also responsible for beheading John the Baptist. But it was Pontius Pilate, the authoritarian Roman ruler of Judaea, who conducted the trial of Jesus and ...

Both the Jews and the Romans certainly saw Jesus as a troublemaker. The Gospels depict Herod Antipas, the Jewish agent of Rome in the Galilee, as a fuming critic of this renegade rabbi.

Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the Jewish ruler of Galilee — the region where Jesus grew up. Other texts from after the first few centuries A.D. said that Pilate became a Christian.