Herod's Eyes: War, Love, and the Search for the Messiah

When Rome was the ruler of the known world and those who were ruled chafed, a great and unexpected change took place in Judea. Nissim ben Amariah was there, a minister to Herod the Great and his son as well as a foil for Caesar Augustus. He was at the Slaughter of the Innocents and Golgotha and found himself swept up into the wars of Rome. He survived war and tyranny, prisons, and the turmoil of the Temple in Jerusalem. A flawed family man, his marriage was touched by tragedy, troubled, and...