NGC King of Judaea AE Herod The Great (40-4 BC) Bronze Prutah High Grade

NGC King of Judaea AE Herod The Great (40-4 BC) Bronze Prutah High Grade

Herod I ( Herod the Great ) was a complex biblical figure. A brilliant politician and the greatest builder in Jewish history, he was also a paranoid madman who ruthlessly executed anyone he deemed a threat to his absolute power, including legitimate rivals, family members, or innocent babies. He was the one who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents in which all children under the age of 2 in the Bethlehem area were put to death. Jesus, Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt at that time to avoid this massacre.

Herod was crowned King of the Jews by the Roman Senate, and ruled as a client king from 40 BC until his disease-ridden death 36 years later. He died in Jericho in 4 BC.

A prodigious builder, Herod expanded the Second Temple in Jerusalem, of which only the famed Western Wall remains. He constructed fortresses at Masada, Antonia, and Herodium; the port city of Caesarea; the huge edifice atop the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron; and massive fortifications around Jerusalem, as well as three towers at the city’s entrance.

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