Between Testaments
Undeceptions with John Dickson
The End of the Old Testament
This herald is the one who, according to the gospel of matthew, is concerned about the news of a descendant of king david recently born in beth Bethlehem. And he has all the male infants of the town killed. It sounds dramatic, but based on the tiny size of the town, it was probably only a handful of children. Still terrible, but it wasn't going to make the jerusalem times. We have no extra ical evidence for this particular event, but we do have evidence that herod did stuff like this all the time. He killed his own offspring when he thought they were a bit hungry for the throne. And in his final painridden days I also know he
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