Yes, Herod was a Roman client king who ruled over Judea under the authority of the Roman Empire.
No, he was a political ruler appointed by the Roman Senate.
It was complicated situation. There was a Roman Governate, which meant that there was a Roman Governor who wielded absolute power in the province of Iudea. However, the Romans allowed for King Herod to rule on a more local level as a subordinate autonomous ruler. Herod was also an absolute ruler save for the Roman authority to overrule him.
Both Joseph and Mary lived in Nazareth in the Roman period, and when king Herod was the ruler.
The nativity story in which Joseph and Mary travelled to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus is to be found in Luke's Gospel. The ruler can be King Herod the Great or Cyrenius, but not both.Luke 1:5 says that King Herod the Great was the ruler of the country, thereby placing Jesus' birth prior to 4 BCE. Luke 2:2 says that Cyrenius was the Roman ruler of Syria, with responsibility for what was by then the Roman province of Judea, thereby placing Jesus' birth approximately 6 CE - 10 years after Herod died.
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The Roman emperor Herod ruled over Palestine. ANSWER 2 : King Herod the Great ruled Palestine. WHO ELSE? A KING BLACK DRAGON!?!?! lol jking it was Herod the Great.
The ruler was king Herod.
1 a.D.
The emperor Augustus annexed Judea to the Roman empire because the people of Judea asked him to depose king Herod Archelaus, after two years of his rule, because he had suppressed a rebellion violently. killing 3,000 people. There were Jews who were favourable to a Roman takeover because they were fed up with the tyrannical ruler of the Herodian dynasty. Prior to Augustus' annexation, Herod the Great's Kingdom of Judea, following his will, was partitioned among his three sons. Herod Archelaus was given of Judea, Idumea and Samaria Antipas was given Galilee and Perea with the lesser title of tetrarch (ruler of a quarter). Their half-brother Herod Philip II was given the Golan Heights and areas to the east of the River Jordan, Augustus annexed only the territories of Herod Archelaus. Two anti-Roman movements developed: the Zealots and the Sicarii.
In the year 37 BCE.
King Herod.
Herodotus.