↑ "Herod". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2007-07-27. born 74 BC died March/April, 4 BC, Jericho, Judaea byname Herod the Great, Latin Herodes Magnus Roman-appointed king of Judaea ... his father, Antipater, was an Edomite (an Arab from the region between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba)
↑ MATTHEW 2:16 "When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi." 'HOLY' Bible, New International Version (Eng. Bible-NIV095-00301 ABS-1986-20,000-Z-1)
↑ "Most recent biographies of Herod the Great deny it entirely", Paul L. Maier, "Herod and the Infants of Bethlehem", in Chronos, Kairos, Christos II, Mercer University Press (1998), 170; see also Geza Vermes, The Nativity: History and Legend, London, Penguin, 2006, p22; E. P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus, Penguin, 1993, p.85
