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>> we tend to remember herod as the herod of the nativity scene, as the evil herod from the new testament. we know it from christmas plays in schools. we know it how its retold in churches. its very much the christian imagination, rather than the totality of who he was. >> to understand the man behind the legend, we need to look at the writing of jewish historian josephus. jose josephus is a priest of suppose ed li hasmonean stock. also of the great jewish war. within those histories of the jewi...

The gospel writers motives were not to document jesus life and works as history but to make them meaningful in a world of competing theologies. >> when matthew is going to have jesus give a sermon on the mount, hes going to model him on moses, even as he is being born. so as moses was almost killed by the evil pharaoh, jesus is going to be almost killed by the evil herod. >> the number-one message from roman imperial theology was that the emperor was divine and that the emperor had a divine righ...

Religious studies, california state university. >> and muslims believe, just like christians do, that jesus was born to mary, who was a virgin, and mary, interesting enough, is the only woman whos mentioned by name in the quran -- in fact, she is mentioned more by name in the quran than in the new testament. [ men singing ] >> of the four new testament gospels, only two feature the nativity story. the gospel according to luke tells of the roman emperor augustus caesars census and the journey fro...

Form the child. >> john dominic crossing believes the motives were nots document of jesus life and worw as history but to make him ake meaningful in the world of competing theology..>> >> when matthew is going to have jesus give his sermon on the mount hes going to model him on moses even as he is being born, so as moses is almost killed by the evil pharaoh, jesus is going to be almost killed by the evil herod. >> the number one message from roman imperial theology was that the emperor was divin...

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