Talk:Herod Antipas

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Contents 1 NPOV: Josephus on John the Baptist 2 Death date? 3 Article cleanup 4 Assessment

[edit] NPOV: Josephus on John the Baptist

Someone speculated that the passage on John the Baptist in Josephus is a Christian interpolation. Josephus' account differs from the New Testament account and is mentioned by Origen. I can find no credible scholars which view this passage as a Christian interpolation. Keep your speculation to yourself. 24.7.87.135 21:20, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Good point. Most scholars also believe that Josephus' remarks about Jesus are not an interpolation either, although it has been doctored a bit by Christians. Tom129.93.17.213 04:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Death date?

Any sense of the year of his death in the ancient sources or modern scholarship? john k 05:23, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

It appears a great deal of the information on this page is copied and pasted too many times, there are several areas where I see repeating text.198.240.130.75 19:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)C

[edit] Article cleanup

I've cleaned up this article a bit. Among the changes, I've added brackets for birth/death, created a seperate section for materials pseudepigraphical in nature, created a section for Antipas' role in popular culture, and I've also cleaned up the section related to Jesus' trial.

A factual mention that of the gospels, only Luke records the trial is fine, however it was irrelevant to the article to have a long apologetic of why only Luke would record the trial, explaining point by point the purpose of each gospel. I have removed this section. If it restored, it really should go to the footnotes, as it breaks the narrative of the article.

Brando130 15:41, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

Only marking it B because I can't mark it higher; consider Wikipedia:Good article nomination. The article has tripled in length and vastly improved in quality over the last month. Good work. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 17:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to both reviewers. I'm happy with the article's coverage of its subject's biography, but I'm hesitant to nominate it for good article status while the Legacy section doesn't mention anything between the Gospel of Peter and Jesus Christ Superstar. I suspect there's more to be said about portrayals of or attitudes towards Herod, but I don't know where to look for information about that. EALacey 14:45, 21 October 2007 (UTC)