At Christmas time we read about King Herod who ruled Judea at the time of Jesus’s birth, and he is the villain of many ...

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 ...

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

Hundreds of lavish stone floor tiles believed to have decorated the Second Temple in Jerusalem have been identified in rubble removed from the Temple Mount, archaeologists announced Tuesday. The bits ...

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If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out his ...

Education Week attendees use 3-D virtual reality glasses to tour Herod's temple. (LeAnn Hunt) BYU Education Week participants can take a virtual reality tour of Herod’s temple in the Joseph Smith ...

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It is Hanukkah 5767. Once more, we commemorate the heroism of the Maccabees, and celebrate the re-dedication of the Second Temple by their hands, more than 2,000 years ago. It appears that heroism and ...