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HERODIANS ('Hpw&avoi)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERODIANS ('Hpw&avoi) , a See also:sect or party mentioned in Scripture as having on two occasions—once in See also:Galilee, and again in See also:Jerusalem—manifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus (See also:Mark iii. 6, xii. 13; Matt. xxii. 6; cf. also Mark viii. 15). In each of these cases their name is coupled with that of the See also:Pharisees. According to many interpreters the courtiers orsoldiers of See also:Herod Antipas (" Milites Herodis," See also:Jerome) are intended; but more probably the Herodians were a public See also:political party, who distinguished themselves from the two See also:great See also:historical parties of See also:post-exilian Judaism by the fact that they were and had been sincerely friendly to Herod the Great and to his See also:dynasty (cf. such formations as " Caesariani," " Pornpeiani "). It is possible that, to gain adherents, the Herodian party may have been in the See also:habit of representing that the See also:establishment of a Herodian dynasty would be favourable to the realization of the See also:theocracy; and this in turn may See also:account for See also:Tertullian's (De praescr.) allegation that the Herodians regarded Herod himself as the See also:Messiah. The sect was called by the Rabbis Boethusians as being friendly to the See also:family of See also:Boethus, whose daughter Mariamne was one of Herod the Great's wives. (J. H. A.

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