There were three Herods, around that time; murderous batshit Herod; Herod Archelaus, and Herod Antipas. Quite possibly, the three gets mixed up. (View Post)

The same way that the “Publicans” in the Bible are not innkeepers at all. I’m not sure that inns (as we, or even medieval people) would understand them, would have been a thing, in that time and plac… (View Post)

Real household incomes have risen in line with GDP per capita. At a guess I would say you can reconcile the numbers through (a) more people being in work (the employment rate was about 70% in 2008, c… (View Post)

Ineffectual governments will often poke their opponents in the eye. I think this is completely trivial, just a piece of nastiness. (View Post)

That is certainly true, as well. (View Post)