Herod the Great and his son became the New Testament ... Built between 22 and 10 B.C., Herod named Caesarea Maritima for his patron, Caesar Augustus. It was constructed around an artificial ...

Thus, here we have, at Caesarea Maritima, a Roman Governor building a temple in honor of the Roman Emperor. Tell me a little bit about Herod the Great as a person. I mean, he was a man of enormous ...

The major projects he completed include the incomparable Temple in Jerusalem, a stunning winter palace in Jericho, two palaces atop Masada and the harbor at Caesarea. A palace garden in Jericho ...

Caesarea was named for Caesar Augustus by the infamous Herod I who enlarged it during ... and Origen in their studies and translations. Basil the Great and his brother Gregory of Nazianzus also ...

Arnon Y.D. 1999. Islamic and Crusader Pottery (Area I, 1993–94). In K.G. Holum, A. Raban and J. Patrich eds. Caesarea Papers 2: Herod’s Temple, the Provincial Governor’s Praetorium and Granaries, the ...