HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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Question
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He believed in many gods.
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He persecuted their followers.
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He was controlled by the Romans.
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He rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 37 B.C.E., Rome appointed a man named Herod to be the king of Judea. Although Herod was not Jewish by birth, he practiced the Jewish religion and rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem. However, many Jews distrusted him because they viewed him as a puppet of the Romans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The New Testament portrays him as a tyrant, into whose kingdom Jesus of Nazareth was born.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why were the Romans especially concerned about law and order? Rome had recently weathered a number of civil wars and slave rebellions and it was an enormous slave-holding society.
Detailed explanation-4: -Herod ruled Judea from 37 BC. The Bible says he initiated a murder of all the infants in Bethlehem in an attempt to get rid of the baby Jesus.