1898. Frederic W. Farrar, the renowned bible scholar, presents a history of the Herods. Contents: The Jews after the Babylonish Captivity; The Jews Under Ptolemies and Seleucids; The Jews Under Antiochus Epiphanes; Rise of the Asmonaean Family (The Maccabees); The Later Asmonaeans; Antipater, the Idumaean; Herod the Great; Herod, King of the Jews; Troubles at Home and Abroad; A Hated Benefactor; The Public Life of Herod; Public and Private Events; Herod's Domestic Misery; Herod and the Temple; The Temple of the Lord, and the Lord of the Temple; The Midnight and the Daystar; Archelaus the Ethnarch; Herod Philip. Philip the Tetrarch. Herod Antipas.; Herod Agrippa I; Herod of Chalcus and Herod Agrippa II; and The Final Catastrophe. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.