04-23-2013, 04:54 PM
This Herod would have been the one from whom Joseph, Mary and infant/toddler Jesus fled to Egypt, builder of the Second Temple, and the one called "the Great". Being a Hellenized and "progressively-minded" man, his dress and accoutrements could have been as much Eastern/Greek than Western/Roman, but then, there wasn't as much difference in clothing as people like to think.
We're not as sure of the dates, Nathan, for events like the "slaughter of the innocents" as we are of some other happenings in Judea, but we can conclude from the Bible account that the visit of the Magi was around 2 years after Jesus' birth. It's likely that the oft-suggested date of 7BC is the better choice than the "ZERO" year (which, of course never was). Given that, Herod's death in 4BC would fit right into the timeline.
There was a BBC/PBS special narrated by Roger Moore recently, that explained why the "Slaughter" would not have been recorded in anybody's history. Bethlehem was a small town of around a thousand at that time, and the number of 2 year old and under male children would have been likely a dozen to twenty, if the TV was correct. While devastating to the specific parents, that wouldn't raise too many ancient Roman eyebrows. Despots could execute people for cause, and often did, without any questions being asked. It would be just one more reason that the Israelites would hate Herod in a long list of reasons
And, essentially, NObody used the SPQR banner that many films insist makes things "Roman".
How is the film progressing? Any scheduled release yet?
(*a Providentially nasty death*, indeed. A prolapsed rectum is certainly a risky business, even today. And their level of surgery was not quite as advanced as ours, so that condition would have been almost certainly fatal, unless Providentially healed, which wasn't very likely under the circumstances, right?)
:dizzy: :!:
We're not as sure of the dates, Nathan, for events like the "slaughter of the innocents" as we are of some other happenings in Judea, but we can conclude from the Bible account that the visit of the Magi was around 2 years after Jesus' birth. It's likely that the oft-suggested date of 7BC is the better choice than the "ZERO" year (which, of course never was). Given that, Herod's death in 4BC would fit right into the timeline.
There was a BBC/PBS special narrated by Roger Moore recently, that explained why the "Slaughter" would not have been recorded in anybody's history. Bethlehem was a small town of around a thousand at that time, and the number of 2 year old and under male children would have been likely a dozen to twenty, if the TV was correct. While devastating to the specific parents, that wouldn't raise too many ancient Roman eyebrows. Despots could execute people for cause, and often did, without any questions being asked. It would be just one more reason that the Israelites would hate Herod in a long list of reasons
And, essentially, NObody used the SPQR banner that many films insist makes things "Roman".
How is the film progressing? Any scheduled release yet?
(*a Providentially nasty death*, indeed. A prolapsed rectum is certainly a risky business, even today. And their level of surgery was not quite as advanced as ours, so that condition would have been almost certainly fatal, unless Providentially healed, which wasn't very likely under the circumstances, right?)
:dizzy: :!:
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
