Israeli Museum’s Herod Show is King of Exhibitions

THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD
By Tal Kra-Oz

Professor Ehud Netzer and Roi Porat in the Royal room of the theater at Herodium.

ISRAEL---“Herod the Great: The King’s Final Journey” just might be Israel’s hottest ticket; it has attracted more than 230,000 visitors since its opening this past February (it is scheduled to close in January 2014). It is definitely Israel’s largest archaeological exhibit ever. Rome and Jerusalem, the birthplaces of modern Western civilization, share an infamously bloody history. The destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman general Titus in 70 C.E. effectively excised Jerusalem from the world’s annals for almost 2,000 years, while securing its place in prayer books. [link]