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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 220 EAN: 9781417921911 ISBN: 1417921919 Label: Kessinger Publishing, LLC Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: June 25, 2004 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC Studio: Kessinger Publishing, LLC Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 1898. Frederic W. Farrar, the renowned bible scholar, presents a history of the Herods. Contents: The Jews after the Babylonish Captivity; The Jews Under Ptolemies and Seleucids; The Jews Under Antiochus Epiphanes; Rise of the Asmonaean Family (The Maccabees); The Later Asmonaeans; Antipater, the Idumaean; Herod the Great; Herod, King of the Jews; Troubles at Home and Abroad; A Hated Benefactor; The Public Life of Herod; Public and Private Events; Herod's Domestic Misery; Herod and the Temple; The Temple of the Lord, and the Lord of the Temple; The Midnight and the Daystar; Archelaus the Ethnarch; Herod Philip. Philip the Tetrarch. Herod Antipas.; Herod Agrippa I; Herod of Chalcus and Herod Agrippa II; and The Final Catastrophe. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Poor, biased, scholarshipAnytime a book of history lacks an index, you know the scholarship is going to be dubious. But the problems don't end there and they get worse. There are numerous quotations in the book without any citations or references. That failure alone would mean this book couldn't pass muster in any university as a legitimate thesis. Furthermore, the objectivity of the book is in question every time reference is made to Jesus as "Our Lord, Jesus". Clearly, Jesus is perceived as more than just an historical ... Read More Rating:  - Informative, but not dull!This book will give you a great deal of information about the Hasmoneans, the Herods and even some of the Caesars but it never gets bogged down in detail. If you have read Josephus, then this book will refresh some things and there are plenty of references to the Talmud and other Jewish sources such as Philo. If you have trouble splitting the Herods then this book will definately help you. He spends a good deal of time on Herod the Great, but he was a little light on information about Herod Antipas. ... Read More 
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