Not in the Theater: Challenging Josephus’s Location for the Place of Herod Agrippa’s DeathJosephus is an important source for first-century Palestinian Jewish history, but he is far from infallible.
The death of Herod Agrippa I occurred in Caesarea according to both Josephus and the book of Acts. Josephus writes that the king was in the theater when the crowd hailed him as a god and he was struck down. Details in Josephus’s account, however, indicate that the episode occurred in the city amphitheater next door to the temple where the emperor was worshipped.
By Todd Bolen
Bibleplaces.com
July 2010
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