.      In December, 2008 National Geographic magazine, there was an interesting story called “The Real King Herod, Architect of the Holy Land”. However, what caught my attention was not the well documented discussions of his construction projects.

The author noted that King Herod is perhaps best known for ordering the slaughter of male infants in an attempt to kill the newborn Jesus Christ. The author went on to claim that, “Herod is almost certainly innocent of this crime, of which there is no report apart” from what is recorded in the Bible’s book of Mathew.