Apart from the crass beginning ('We know more about Herod than we do about Jesus.'), which almost put me off this site (!), and a startling absence of the light of Biblical evidence* this gives a good insight into the politics surrounding Herod the Great’s life & work. *in setting out helpfully that Herod was an outsider to the Jewish nation the site chooses only to speak of him being of Arab and Idumean descent. Yet, Idumean (Latin) = Edomite (Hebrew) = Udumi (Assyrian). Which opens a big can of worms biblically speaking! Even wikipedia traces this!
And unless I just missed it there is a startling omission – any mention of Herod’s rebuilding of the 2nd Temple.
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