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If you’re at all interested in learning more about Herod the Great, here are the best resources I uncovered during the fall of 2012. Josephus: the Antiquities of the Jews…

Herod originally intended to have his son, Herod Antipas, succeed him as King of the Jews but Caesar Augustus vetoed the appointment. Augustus suggested Herod appoint his other son, Archeleus,…

Herod died shortly after the arrival of the Magi, and within seventy years of his death everything he had schemed, labored, and shiestered to acquire was gone. The Hasmonean monarchy…

Herod died shortly after the Holy Family fled to Egypt. We’re not sure precisely how long after, just that his death coincided with a collision of stars in the sky….

Today I’m writing about paranoia. By paranoia I don’t mean the clinical diagnoses, but common anxiety experienced to an uncommon degree. I mean excessive worry. I mean the fantasies that…

The quietest line in Matthew’s nativity claims the Magi went home ‘by another route.’ They had been warned in a dream that Herod was going to kill them. They had…

I’m bad at math, but sometimes still try. Recently I asked my friend Amy to help me with a little math problem, to try and determine the approximate worth of…

There are two kinds of leaders: those who give strength to others, and those who keep strength for themselves. Because power is strength. At the extremes are tyrants and stewards….