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Based upon the writings of Josephus (which appear to be mostly accurate), the anchor date of the war between Antony and Octavius Caesar, and calculations of relevant lunar events, it appears that Herod the Great died on January 26 (Shebat 2) in 1 B.C.E."
Concerning Herod's Death, and Testament, and Burial. The Antiquities of the Jews — Flavius Josephus. 1. And now Herod altered his testament upon the alteration of his mind; for he appointed Antipas, to whom he had before left the kingdom, to be tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and granted the kingdom to Archclaus.
Sep 16, 2015 · Acts 12:21-23 says Herod Agrippa was struck down by an angel and eaten of worms: Acts 12:21-23: And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
- One of the best known aspects of Jewish dietary rules is to not eat pigs. Pigs are notorious carriers of a species of Round Worm that causes the ea...
- I really don't see much of a problem with this text. Similar "problems" appear throughout scripture. I've observed that the Holy Spirit does not...
- What is significant in this context is that Josephus reports Herod the Great, grandfather of Herod, as suffering the very same symptoms the author...
- The king who was eaten by a creature and died was Herod Agrippa I. The Bible states that he was fatally struck by an angel of the Lord, and he was...
- Interesting extrapolation of a conclusion, from probabalistic extensions of the unproven. Given the fact that it is somewhat de rigueur to doubt th...
Physicians have long debated what caused King Herod’s death, but there is no doubt (or disagreement) that his demise was a horrid one. Many would say it was also well-deserved. We know the king’s symptoms in some detail from the first-century Jewish historian Josephus.
Josephus stated that Herod was so concerned that no one would mourn his death that he commanded a large group of distinguished men to come to Jericho, and he gave an order that they should be killed at the time of his death so that the displays of grief that he craved would take place; his brother in law Alexas and his sister Salome did not ...
How, immediately after his crime against our Saviour and the other infants, the punishment sent by God drove him on to his death, we can best learn from the words of that historian (Josephus—37-100 AD) who, in the seventeenth book of his Antiquities of the Jews, writes as follows concerning his end:
Jul 19, 2010 · My particular interest at the moment is in Josephus’ description of Herod the Great in his Jewish War. It takes up a large section of book 1 and has a rather articficial, unchronological structure: Herod’s rise to power, heroism and loyalty to Rome, a eulogy on the king, then a detailed description of the king’s slavery to his passion for ...
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