Herod The Great
The man we know as "King Herod the Great" is mentioned only briefly in the Bible. Nearly a century after his death, Josephus, a first century historian, described him as a king who "stole the throne like a fox, ruled like a tiger and died like a dog," having murdered most of his family. So who was Herod really? Was he a spineless collaborator with Rome, the ruthless killer of infants and the would-be assassin of baby Jesus? Or was he an astute politician, a forceful king and the greatest builder in Jewish history? Join the world's leading archeologists, historians and scholars as they search for the truth about one of the Bible's most legendary villains.
