Wasn't he just a descendant of forced converts? I did not know he destroyed records. I wonder why that was so important to him. Perhaps for the same reason he killed anyone that could be a competitor?
I am trying to independently verify this, but have heard he destroyed them sometime after JesusтАЩ death, a King of Israel needed to be able to prove his lineage. Since he was тАШplacedтАЩ on the throne by Rome, he would have been all the more under scrutiny. Perhaps during the Jewish rebellions?
The client King Herod was an Edomite. He also, apparently, destroyed the ancestry records of the Jews.
Wasn't he just a descendant of forced converts? I did not know he destroyed records. I wonder why that was so important to him. Perhaps for the same reason he killed anyone that could be a competitor?
I am trying to independently verify this, but have heard he destroyed them sometime after JesusтАЩ death, a King of Israel needed to be able to prove his lineage. Since he was тАШplacedтАЩ on the throne by Rome, he would have been all the more under scrutiny. Perhaps during the Jewish rebellions?