Herod the Great − though in the Gospel of Matthew, he wasn’t so great.
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Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth.
‘Departure for Canaan,’ a detail of a 13th-century mosaic from the dome of Abraham in St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice.
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The Bible is full of stories about migrants. That doesn’t mean it has a simple takeaway message about them.
The famine in Samaria was one of many depicted in the Bible.
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Famine was a constant threat during biblical times. The authors of the Old Testament used it to explain God’s wrath, but also as a narrative device.
Trumpeting the past? The Bible has conflicting narratives over the conquest of Canaan.
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The New York Times’ 1619 project and Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission had very different interpretations of US history. Similarly, the Bible has more than one narrative.