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WHEN HEROD
THE GREAT PRETENDER
DIED IN 4 BCE, AUGUSTUS
SPLIT HIS REALM AMONG HIS THREE SONS,
ARCHELAUS WAS GIVEN JUDAEA, SAMARIA, AND IDUMAEA;
Herod Antipas - known as "THE FOX" - reigned over Galilee & Beraea
(a region in the Trans-Jordan northeast of the Dead Sea); & Philip was handed control
over Gaulanitis (modern day Golan) & the lands northeast of the Sea of Galilee aka Yam Kinnereth (aka Ginossar/Tiberias)?

None of Herod's were given the title of king:
Antipas & Philip were each named as TETRARCH, meaning "ruler of a quarter," & ARCHELAUS was named ETHNARCH, or "ruler of a people"; both titles were deliberately so meant to signal the end of unified kingship over the Jews! This division of Herod's kingdom proved a disaster for Rome, as the dam of anger and resentment that had been built during his long ànd oppressive reign bùrst into a flood of riots and very violent protests that his nebbish sons, dulled by a life of idleness and languor, could hardly contain?! These rioters burned down one of Herod's palaces on the Jordan River!

Twice, the Temple itself was overrun:
first during Passover/Pesach, thèn agàin
at Shavuot or the Festival of Weeks!!!

In the countryside,
the bandit gangs that Herod had beaten into submission
once again began tearing and wearing through Galilee,
also slaughtering the former king's associates!

In Idumaea,
Herod's home region, two thousand of his soldiers mutinied:
even Herod's allies, including his own cousin ACHIAV, joined this rebellion?!
All these uprisings were no doubt fueled by the messianic expectations of the Jews! In Peraea, a former slave
of Herod's - an imposing giant of a man named SHIM'ON - crowned himself messiah & rallied together a group of bandits to plunder
the royal palaces @Yericho! The rebellion ended when Shim'on was also captured and beheaded! And a very short time later,
another messianic aspirant, a poor shepherd boy names Athronges, placed a crown upon HÌS head and launched a fool-
hardy attack against Roman forces: he, too, was of course caught
ànd executed by the pimplepurpled Roman
officials & their hangmen?

The chaos & bloodshed continued unabated
until Caesar Augustus finally ordered his own imperial troops into Judaea to finally put HÌS end to the uprising!
Although the emperor allowed Philip & Antipas to remain in their posts, he sent ARCHELAUS into exile, placed Jeru-
Salem under a roman governor, and, in the year 6 CE, transformed all of Judaea into a province ruled directly by Rome!
There would be no more semi-independence! No more client-kings. No more King of the Jews: Jerusalem now belònged wholly to Rome. According to a tradition, Herod the Great died on the eve of Passover in 4 BCE, at the overripe age of seventy, having reigned over the Jews for thirty-seven years! Flavius Yosephus writes that on the day of Herod's death, there was an eclipse of the moon,
an inauspicious sign, perhaps thus presaging the tumult that would follow.

There is,
of course, also another tradition
told about the demise of Herod the Great:
that sometime between his death in 4 BCE
& the Roman takeover of Jerusalem in 6 CE, in an obscure
hillside village in Galilee, a child was born
who wóuld one day claim for himself
Herod's mantle as
King of the Jews.

Soothsayers,
soursuckers, silklovers
& lots of psychedelics
ruled for the
moment
...

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