Even then, though, Joseph was warned, once again in a dream, that the situation in Judea under Herod’s son Archelaus was still perilous, so he “withdrew to the district of Galilee” (vv. 19 ...

Let me explain: I understood that Jesus was born around 6BCE. This is partly based on the accepted date of King Herod the Great’s death, 4BCE.

On the death of “Herod the Great” in 4 BC, Judea was divided by the Romans between his three sons, who lost the title of king: Herod Archelaus governed a restricted Judea as ethnarch, Herod ...

Herod died around 4 BCE in March or April, a few years before the date we now assign to Jesus's birth. Meanwhile, the census that Mary and Joseph were traveling to (according to Luke, the Census ...

One of the most direct statements that he makes about this matter is the statement that Herod was about 70 years old when he died. Josephus also tells us that Herod was 25 (corrected from an ...

Actually, a clue is given in the biblical narrative because after King Herod died, his son Herod Archelaus took over as ethnarch of Judea. In Matthew 2:22, it says that when Joseph heard that ...

Dying, Herod the Great divided his kingdom, and his son Archelaus so frightened Joseph that upon return from Egypt, Joseph settled in Nazareth of Galilee rather than in Judea, where one might ...

After his death, Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus divided the kingdom among Herod’s sons. One son, Archelaus, ruled both Judea and Samaria. Because of Archelaus’ viciousness, Joseph was warned in a dream ...

Herod Antipater, the first of the Herodians and Antipas’ father, was installed as a puppet ruler of Palestine by Julius Caesar in 47 BC. Though little is known about Antipater specifically, we know ...