Herod did the same, expounding in the course of Cleopatra's Jerusalem visit on her shameless behavior.
For instance, the story's putative villain, Herod, comes across as a vivid, even somewhat sympathetic character.
"At some point we're going to have to make a decision, " Mr. Herod says.
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Brown recalls a nativity play in which the boy playing Herod was off sick.
Historians believe Herod constructed an extravagant, 25m-long tomb for himself before his death.
Thanks to this well-crafted exhibition, judging Herod's place in history becomes even more challenging than it already was.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
He and His family left Israel to escape the state, traveling in secret in defiance of King Herod.
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The bottom level entombed two unidentified people, while Herod lay in the story above surrounded by a circle of columns.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
In middle age, he plunged into the story of Herod's madness, and of the flight of the holy family into Egypt.
An amphitheater had earlier stood on the site, along with a royal lounge where Herod and his guests enjoyed private shows.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
The amphitheater was preserved because Herod buried it under tons of earth so the mausoleum would sprout from a smooth slope.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
While such regal trappings meant nothing to the ordinary person, this cannot be said of Herod's projects in Caesarea and Jerusalem.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
They slipped into Egypt to escape Herod and slipped back into Palestine when Herod died and was succeeded by his son.
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The Oscar-winning actor, who describes the film as his "most personal project ever", also plays the role of Herod in the feature.
As he's driven by a dream of a child who'll destroy him, Herod's despair strikes us, perhaps uncomfortably, as quite a human reaction.
Pursued by the Roman army and King Herod's forces, they hide in a stable and run into Mary, Joseph and the newborn Jesus.
In between, we pass through three spaces, each dedicated to one of Herod's main legacies: as builder, leader of the Jews and ally of Rome.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
It was in this conflicted setting that Herod turned to his last project, a mausoleum that would be visible from afar and last for ages.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
In Caesarea, as seen in a dedicated video space, Herod built from scratch a harbor and a city that became Judea's maritime gateway and commercial heartbeat.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
We do need the John the Baptist types to tell Herod he was in sin, but my part of the war is in a different arena.
That is why Herod built both Jerusalem and Caesarea, "in effect giving the country two capitals and positing a separation of religion from state, " Mr. Schwartz said.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
Herod's political skill in transferring his loyalty from the dead Mark Antony to his archrival, and later securing Rome's defense for embattled diaspora Jews, calls into question his reputed insanity.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
Cultural tension boiled over when Herod planted Rome's golden eagle atop the Temple's entrance, an abomination to Judaism that made people tear it down only to be caught and burned alive.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
For its part, the Israel Museum avoids judging Herod.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
Then again, Herod's Roman orientation was also cultural.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
Yes, none of this justifies Herod's violence.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
Entering through a panorama of the Judean Desert where Herod wintered, we turn left into the restored throne room where he was laid out on a golden bier, crown on head and scepter at hand, as his funeral began.
WSJ: Shards of a Reputation | Herod the Great | Israel Museum | By Amotz Asa-El
They needed to be reminded on the day where the world celebrates the birth of a child whom Rome and Herod try to assign to the role of 'surplus population, ' that the frightened men who rule the world in the name of scarcity should not be followed, but saved.
Still, the 7th century Al-Aqsa mosque was built atop an earlier Christian church, which in stood astride a Roman temple, all of which stood on the platform built by king Herod to house the second Jewish temple, which itself replaced the temple of Solomon, built around 900 BCE.
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