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When Jesus was born in about 4 b.c. , Joseph and Mary escaped Herod’s paranoia by fleeing into Egypt with the new-born infant.
Herod the Great, whose engineering feats and brutality became legendary, was installed as the King of Judea.
A massive fortress was built overlooking the Temple Mount, which Herod named “Antonia” in honor of his Roman friend and benefactor, Mark Antony.
For all his accomplishments, Herod was nevertheless hated by his subjects; he taxed, he tortured, and he ordered the massacre of male Jewish infants in an attempt to do away with the heralded Messiah.
After the initial years of Roman administration and political infighting, Rome installed Herod (scion of a family from Idumea, a Jewish kingdom in the desert) as King of Judea.