2.20 Herod's Heirs

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Herod’s kingdom was divided. The Romans took their own chunk. His sons Archelaus, Herod Antipas, and Philip received portions. Their success was mixed. Judea was never easy to rule, often breaking out into brigandage, even when run by Jews. Race riots between Greeks and Jews were common. Philip does not play a role in the New Testament story. Archelaus has a cameo part. Herod Antipas figures in the lives of Jesus and John the Baptist. Herod’s grandson Herod Agrippa I appears in the story of the arrest of St Peter. In the end, the Romans decided on direct rule. That did not work out so well. The Jews erupted in revolt in 66 AD, a revolt that finished with the destruction of the temple and the city of Jerusalem.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:19.8	Episode 2.20, Herod's Heirs.
0:24.2	I last left the historical story of the province of Judea, the death of the odious Herod
0:30.7	the Great. Back in episode 2.15, the Maccabbean century.
0:36.9	Herod the Great died in 4 BC at around 70 years of age.
0:42.8	After Herod's death, his descendants would spend another 70 years bickering and plotting.
0:50.2	Rome was always in the background, slicing the pizza of Herod's old kingdom into dry and crusty portions for his descendants,
0:59.0	and juicy cheesy helpings for direct Roman rule.
1:03.0	In the end, Roman governors supplanted all of Herod's sons.
1:09.0	Gidea became a third-rate province governed by unexceptional imperial bureaucrats,
1:15.6	who had neither sympathy for nor understanding of the people they ruled.
1:21.6	The restive region was rarely remote from rebellion.
1:26.6	The historian Josephus lists numerous insurgent figures from the years of Roman rule
1:33.3	before the temple fell in 70.
1:37.3	By Josephus' time, the names that some of these insurrectionaries were lost to him.
1:43.3	He talks of a Samaritan, the Egyptian,
1:47.8	a prophet. None of them claimed to be a descendant of David. None of them claimed to be a
1:55.0	Messiah. None espoused the cosmological pretensions of the apocalyptic literature.
2:03.6	None claimed to be ushering in God's kingdom and a new age.
2:07.6	They just wanted to kick out the Romans.
2:11.6	Follow me, they said, and a miracle will drive the Romans out.
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