in a foreign land, what do you do? how do you live? >> but some scholars question if the massacre of the innocents is a real historical event. >> kill them all. >> josephus does not talk about this kind of massacre, and you would think given all the other massacres he talks about that he would bring it up. >> it does tell us something about the way that herod's character was understood by lots of ancients. it's the kind of story they told about herod as a paranoid, neurotic king who was capable of great barbarism. >> the massacre of the innocents is notisrical but what it