Upon arriving in Jerusalem, the Magi find a rather confusing and perhaps discouraging situation. The reigning king, Herod, knows nothing of the birth of this new King. The Magi likely assumed that ...

Desert strongholdSince its construction a few years before the birth of Christ, the palace-fortress of Herodium ... The meeting between the three magi and Herod, depicted in the 14th-century ...

However we understand the account of the magi, one key element is surely the contrast between these wise seekers and king Herod, a contrast that perhaps encouraged tradition to turn the magi into ...

In the Book of Matthew, the magi stopped at Herod’s palace on their way to Bethlehem, and the king asked them to let him know where this newborn babe was, so that “I may also go and pay him ...

Herod was so enthralled with Mariamne that he yielded to her insistent plea to appoint his only brother, Aristobulus, as high priest, without realizing that this would open Pandora’s box. Model of ...

Sunday, Jan. 7, is the Epiphany of the Lord. Mass readings: Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6; Matthew 2:1-12. For Epiphany, the Gospel depicts the Magi in a ...

Nor did Matza know that his adolescent graffiti would become a part of such an important archaeological site, which includes the only surviving remnant of King Herod’s palace. Every ruler worth ...

Herod built an elaborate palace fortress on the 300-foot mountain ... I drive partway up the mountain to the parking lot where I will meet Netzer. In the early 1980s, before the first intifada ...

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 ...

King Herod was troubled, and the people were troubled ... Astrologers, stargazers, galaxy-chasers, the Magi must have been troubled by what they saw in the sky. But their uncertainty turned ...

The Magi follow a star to Bethlehem. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king of the ...