When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod. There were different rulers called Herod who formed ...

This year, the conference organizers asked participants to study different texts that describe the death of a mystery figure from history (who turned out to be King Herod), and come up with an ...

What is more fragile than family? Yet the church insists that Christ did not simply appear among us as a fully formed man. No ...

Herod the Great − though in the Gospel of Matthew, he wasn't so great. Hulton Archive via Getty Images King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when ...

Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the ...

Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said Wednesday they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle ...

BALTIMORE — King Herod, the bloodthirsty Judean ruler who reputedly tried to kill the infant Jesus, died an excruciating death, brought on by kidney disease and finished off by gangrene, a medical ...

AFP — Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod’s palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot.

King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The scientists found such ...

The three Herods mentioned in the Holy Scripture were all notorious for their cruelty. The first was Herod of Ascalon, aka ...

Herod built an elaborate palace fortress on the 300-foot mountain, Herodium, to commemorate his victory in a crucial battle. Duby Tal / Albatross / IsraelImages Shielding my eyes from the glare of the ...

It being Christmastime, naturally, thoughts turn to King Herod, one of the great villains of history. Without Herod — the erstwhile King of Judea — there would have been no mandated Census forcing ...