By that point, Herod had brought back his oldest son Antipater from exile as a potential ... “other Jewish architecture appears from that time, the great building in Hebron, the Tomb of the ...

Five days before his death he executed his son, Antipater, who was a contender for his throne ... east of Jerusalem, came in a great caravan to Herod's palace. They told him they believed Numbers ...

Herod's eldest son and heir apparent, Antipater, convinced the king that ... (As Kasher notes in his biography, "Herod the Great" was, for the Jews, an ironic title, designating an arrogant ...

King Herod, sometimes called "Herod the Great" (circa 74 to 4 B.C ... Alexander and Aristobulus in 7 B.C., and Antipater II, Herod's oldest son (whom he had with another wife) in 4 B.C. Herod ...

Herod the Great is remembered by Christians ... Rewarding his loyalty, Rome appointed Antipater ruler of Judaea; he in turn appointed his son, the young Herod, as governor of Galilee.

Antipater himself was executed just a few days before Herod’s own death. The emperor Augustus is rumored to have declared: “I would rather be a pig than a son of Herod.” While Herod ...

(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the ... The Gospel story further villainizes Herod, whose son, also called King Herod, or Herod ...

Phasael was Antipater’s eldest son. A gifted diplomat ... He then made a series of decisions both wise and ruthless that would take him from Herod to Herod the Great. First, he rejected the advances ...

“Herod the Great” by Martin Goodman is typical ... and the terrible revelation that their fall had been plotted by Antipater, Herod’s son by his first wife, Doris. Paranoid and tormented ...

Antipater, courted Roman patronage, was eventually named king of Judea by Marc Antony in 40 B.C. King Herod the Great was to occupy one chapter of Hurston’s massive opus. In the outline she ...