This article examines the coinage of Philip, the Herodian tetrarch of Batanea, Trachonitis, Paneas, and Auranitis, in the context of coins struck by other successors of Herod the Great, other ...
The martyrdom of St. John the Baptist — observed annually in the Catholic Church on August 29 — plays out like an episode from a modern day action-adventure series. Jealousy. Lust. Greed. Murder. The ...