The Many Faces of Herod the Great Anthony J. S. Reid Lily must decide

Lily must decide

the religious and the cultural

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this nonfiction reader examines the events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg

The Many Faces of Herod the Great Anthony J. S. Reid Lily must decideAn old, bloodthirsty tyrant hears from a group of Magi about the birth of the Messiah, king of the Jews. He vengefully sends his soldiers to Bethlehem with orders to kill all of the baby boys in the town in order to preserve his own throne. For most of the Western world, this is Herod the Great an icon of cruelty and evil, the epitome of a tyrant. Adam Kolman Marshak portrays Herod the Great quite differently, however, carefully drawing on historical,