This is not the first or last time we hear the power of the Herods evoked by Luke. With the Herodian family’s power comes the threat of violence over Jesus and his followers. Luke strikingly ...

New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty rather than a New Testament figure ...

Divided over whether to fight the Romans or join them, civil war broke out among the Hasmonaean dynasty. Antipater’s son Herod appealed to Rome for aid, and was appointed king of Judaea in 40 B.C.

Herod was a prolific builder who constructed some of the most famous archaeological sites in the Holy Land. ... a Jewish dynasty that controlled what is now Israel, to agree to Roman rule.

Herod was simply the most successful warlord in the region. ... Through his several wives, he established a dynasty that lasted for half a century, albeit in uneasy tension with Roman rule.

A Long-Neglected King of Judea. Although the grandson of the biblical villain Herod the Great, and the longest reigning and of the Herodian dynasty, Herod Agrippa II (fl. c. A.D. 28-c. 95) lacked a ...