Stewart Henry Perowne
Contributor
LOCATION: London, United Kingdom
Orientalist, historian, and lecturer. Author of The Life and Times of Herod the Great; The End of the Roman World; The Political Background of the New Testament; and others.
Primary Contributions (3)
Herod was the Roman-appointed king of Judaea (37–4 bce), who built many fortresses, aqueducts, theaters, and other public buildings and generally raised the prosperity of his land but who was the center of political and family intrigues in his later years. The New Testament portrays him as a…
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