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Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans examines the life, work, and influence of this controversial figure, who remains the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus. Herod's rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose and his influence can still be seen today. In this expanded second edition, additions to the original text include discussion of the archaeological evidence of Herod's activity, his building program, numismatic evidence, and consideration of the roles and activities of other client kings in relation to Herod. This volume includes new maps and numerous photographs, and these coupled with the new additions to the text make this a valuable tool for those interested in the wider Roman world of the late first century BCE at both under- and postgraduate levels. Herod remains the definitive study of the life and activities of the king known traditionally as Herod the Great.… (lisätietoja)
Peter Richardson is a world renowned specialist in Herod. With an undergraduate in architecture before his theological and religious studies, Richardson is uniquely equipped to examine Herod not only as the tyrant who threatened Jesus, but as a complicated King who drove the architectural development of the 1st century Jewish world. ( )
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To Nancy
who has basked in the sun throughout Herod's domain eaten sparse lunches in some of his buildings slept soundly in a few of his palaces and shared fully in the excitement of the chase.
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Herod the Great, as he is usually called, was much like Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, or Peter the Great: talented, vigorous, lusty, skillful, charismatic, attractive, decisive, influential -- but a disaster in his personal life.
ROME: EXTRACT FROM THE ACTA DIURNA Herod, Friend of Romans, Dead at Seventy Rome -- Herod, son of Antipater, dependent king of Judea, whose death in Jericho has just been announced, was one of the most striking and vigorous personalities of our time.
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Dated at Jericho in January, in the consulship of C. Calvisius Sabenus and L. Pasienus Rufus, year one of the 193rd Olympiad and year 37 of my reign.
Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans examines the life, work, and influence of this controversial figure, who remains the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus. Herod's rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose and his influence can still be seen today. In this expanded second edition, additions to the original text include discussion of the archaeological evidence of Herod's activity, his building program, numismatic evidence, and consideration of the roles and activities of other client kings in relation to Herod. This volume includes new maps and numerous photographs, and these coupled with the new additions to the text make this a valuable tool for those interested in the wider Roman world of the late first century BCE at both under- and postgraduate levels. Herod remains the definitive study of the life and activities of the king known traditionally as Herod the Great.
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