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I just watched the video after the one you show here; right after they also have another one with Yishai Fleisher and Noam Arnon showing the history, etc. of the Mearat Hamachpelah. When describing the tomb built much later by Herod, Mr. Arnon says he was Jewish. Have read that Herod was not Jewish but a Roman slave. Noam Arnon said his grandfather was a Jewish convert, but was he his mother's father and was Herod's mother Jewish? I'm not sure about his being Jewish; have always understood he was a Roman slave (maybe Hittite descent) who, of course, usurped the throne and killed out the family of the Chashmanaic dynasty. He also murdered all the Sages of Israel, except for one, Ben Buta.
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I just watched the video after the one you show here; right after they also have another one with Yishai Fleisher and Noam Arnon showing the history, etc. of the Mearat Hamachpelah. When describing the tomb built much later by Herod, Mr. Arnon says he was Jewish. Have read that Herod was not Jewish but a Roman slave. Noam Arnon said his grandfather was a Jewish convert, but was he his mother's father and was Herod's mother Jewish? I'm not sure about his being Jewish; have always understood he was a Roman slave (maybe Hittite descent) who, of course, usurped the throne and killed out the family of the Chashmanaic dynasty. He also murdered all the Sages of Israel, except for one, Ben Buta.
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