King Herod killed babies in hopes of killing Jesus. I figure there should be some record of a king mass murdering babies right?
2007-06-04 06:17:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no other evidence, and the most likely scenario is that Matthew invented the story to bring out the parallels with the Moses story.
On the other hand, Bethlehem was a small village, and Herod killed so many people in his later most paranoid years that it is not impossible that it could have escaped mention.
So the verdict of a historian is: not impossible, but most likely a literary creation, unless other evidence comes to light.
2007-06-04 06:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such record, because king Herod did not kill any babies. The NT borrowed the story of Pharaoh and Moses from the OT, and attributed it to Herod and Jesus.
2007-06-04 08:14:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's worse than that, Jim.
If Herod had done it, Augustus would've had him assassinated, out of fear Herod was resurrecting the Tanit (as Augustus would've understood it.)
2007-06-04 06:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have thought that this mass slaughter would have made the local papers of the day.
Never mind that there would have been an uprising against him for something like this.
But no mention of it.for four centuries apparently. (like that is going to be accurate!) You would have thought that it would have gotten into more than just one of the Gospels too.
2007-06-04 06:45:10 · answer #4 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flavius Josephus, the antiquities of the Jews!
2007-06-04 06:31:57 · answer #5 · answered by thirdeyeeagle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
right!...there should be, but there isn't...
2007-06-04 06:23:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋