Having executed his Maccabean offspring, Herod wrote a deathbed will leaving the kingdom to one of his Samaritan sons, Archelaus. But another son, Antipas, traveled to Rome to contest the will before ...

King Herod Antipas unwittingly built Tiberias directly over a Jewish cemetery. Luckily, some 130 years later, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai decided to purify the place. Skip to main content.

Manaen had a thought-provoking friendship with the tetrarch Herod Antipas. Scholars have differed over the biblical label of “close friend” found in Acts 13:1 (NABRE).