King Herod
The Ancients
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The Reconstruction of the Temple Is Connecting Herod, Right?
The rebuilding of the temple is also connecting herod, right? I'm a legitimate jewish king. And in doing that, herod is basically trying to say, yes, i do have i am, in fact, where i could be. It descended from david by way of the babylonian jewish part of my family. There's no substantiation for that kind of a claim, but herod could have been making those s right in order to help legitimize his position. So i think that all this goes along with what we see at herodium. You have the hellenistic roman aspect, with the tradition of alexander and augustus, and
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