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Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Why did Herod bury his architectural masterpiece and final resting place, and who discovered it? Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Where To? Herodium National Park Herzl has Herzliya, Montefiore has the Jerusalem neighborhood of Yemin Moshe,...

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Historic Walks in Israel

Issue 63 | December 2022

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Book Review | Herod the Great

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Martin GoodmanJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2024227 pages Martin Goodman begins this masterful chronicle of Herod’s tempestuous life by asking whether...

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Issue 75 | December 2025

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The Triumph of the Maccabees||Judea and its neighbors circa 76 BCE

A Brief History of the Hasmoneans

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Hasmonean generations (click image to enlarge) All in the Family Priestly families preferred to marry within their own privileged class, but the Hasmoneans took this practice to something of an extreme. Despite the rivalry between...

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Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Book Review | Herod the Great

A Brief History of the Hasmoneans

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