Simon Sebag Montefiore: History Is Not Over

2457.382 - 2482.236 Simon Sebag Montefiore

And this is the extraordinary thing about the Roman Empire is that they regarded the Jews as a sort of weird eccentricity. But because they were so old and so much themselves, they accepted them. Other cults, they didn't accept. But the Herod family, assumed this amazing position of almost the second family in the Roman Empire. And the children were sent to Augustus' home to be brought up.