The discovery this week of the tomb of King Herod will thrill the dedicated band of scholars and writers who see every scrap of archaeological evidence that surfaces from the Holy Land of 2000 years ago as another opportunity to unpick the Authorised Version in the New Testament of Jesuss life and death. Already buoyed by the global success of Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code, they will now set about testing the legend of Herod handed down by the Christian gospels against the artefacts unearthed at the site of Herodion, Herods final resting place south of Jerusalem. Their subject is a particularly nasty tyrant. Ruler from 37BC to 4BC of the kingdom of Judea (consisting mostly of Jerusalem and present-day southern Israel), Herods paranoia about keeping power and his ruthless suppression of dissent earns him a welldeserved place alongside the great dictators of history.: Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-453813/The-real-King-Herod-Bibles-bloodiest-tyrant.html#ixzz3Mm5Tvo26 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:31:29 +0000
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