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Encyclopedia Britannica



HERODIANS ('Hpw&avoi)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 381 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HERODIANS ('Hpw&avoi) , a sect or party mentioned in Scripture as having on two occasionsonce in Galilee, and again in Jerusalemmanifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus (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 Pharisees. According to many interpreters the courtiers orsoldiers of
Herod
  Antipas (" Milites Herodis," Jerome) are intended; but more probably the Herodians were a public political party, who distinguished themselves from the two
great
  historical parties of
post
 -exilian Judaism by the fact that they were and had been sincerely friendly to
Herod
  the
Great
  and to his dynasty (cf. such formations as " Caesariani," " Pornpeiani "). It is possible that, to gain adherents, the Herodian party may have been in the habit of representing that the
establishment
  of a Herodian dynasty would be favourable to the realization of the
theocracy
 ; and this in turn may
account
  for Tertullian's (De praescr.) allegation that the Herodians regarded Herod himself as the
Messiah
 . The sect was called by the Rabbis Boethusians as being friendly to the family of
Boethus
 , whose daughter Mariamne was one of Herod the Great's wives. (J. H. A. H.)


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