PALESTINE UNDER THE HERODS (2)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Map and Timeline of Palestine under Herod the Great and his sons 

43 B.C. 

a) Antipater I is murdered by poison.

41 B.C. a) Mark Antony elevates Herod the Great to the rank of tetrarch of Jerusalem and Galilee.
40 B.C. a) Herod is appointed, in Rome, as King of Judea ("King of the Jews") by the Roman Senate.
37 B.C. a) Although appointed King of Judea in 40 B.C., it takes another three years before Herod and the army travel to Palestine and conquer Jerusalem. Herod because sole ruler of Judea.
31 B.C. a) Aristobulus IV (31 to 7 B.C.), son of Herod and his second wife Mariamne, is born.
27 B.C. a) End of the Roman Republic. Augustus Caesar becomes Roman Emperor. The End ...