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| Rich spent 11 months researching, learning about Jewish culture in Nazareth, the rule of Herod the Great and his paranoia over prophecies of a coming messiah, as well as the hardships and resentments Jews felt toward the Roman Empire, fueling their yearning for a political savior. The Temple was rebuilt after the Babylonian exile and again during the reign of Herod the Great. Both the first century Jewish historian Josephus (ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS: 17:165-66) and rabbinic sources (see Miller: 63-73) mention a priest from Sepphoris late in the reign of King Herod the Great named Joseph ben Elim or Elem (Joseph son of the mute) who substituted for his relative, Matthias ben Theophilus, as High Priest on Yom Kippur. |
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Herod the Great - king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)