Herod Antipas in Wikipedia
(short for Antipatros) (before 20 BC – after 39 AD) was a
first century AD ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the
title of tetrarch ("ruler of a quarter"). He is best known
today for accounts in the New Testament of his role in events
that led to the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of
Nazareth, and through their portrayal in modern media, such as
film.
After inheriting his territories when the kingdom of his
father Herod the Great was divided upon his death in 4 BC,
Antipas ruled them as a client state of the Roman Empire. He
was responsible for building projects at Sepphoris and
Betharamphtha, and more important for the construction of his
capital Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Named in honor of his patron, the emperor Tiberius, the city
later became a center of rabbinic learning...
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