Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
Archaeological Evidence
Excavation Websites
Herod's Tomb - a website accompanying a National Geographic special about Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer's discovery of Herod the Great's tomb at one of Herod's great palaces, Herodion.
Herod's Lost Tomb Found?
Clip from National Geographic film
Excavation Reports
Netzer, Ehud. Greater Herodium, Qedem: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1981.
Jacobson, David M. "The Design of the Fortress of Herodium." Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 100 (1984) 127-36.
Netzer, Ehud. The Architecture of Herod the Great Builder. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008; original, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
--------. Herodium: An Archaeological Guide. Jerusalem: Cana, 1987.
--------. "Herodium, Herod the Great's Prestige Building Project." Epistimoniki epetiris tis Filosofikis Scholis tou Panepistimiou Athenon 28 (1979–1985) 523-47.
Ovadiah, Asher. "Mosaics of the Herodian Period in Israel." In Fifth International Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics: Held at Bath, England, on September 5–12, 1987 under the aegis of L'Association Internationale pour l'Étude de la Mosaïque Antique and Organized by The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics (ed. Peter Johnson, Roger Ling and David J. Smith; Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 9; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1994) 1.67-76. [Filed in the Masada folder]
Patrich, Joseph. "Corbo's Excavations at Herodium: A Review Article." Israel Exploration Journal 42 (1992) 241-5.
Richardson, Peter. Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Segal, A. "Herodium." Israel Exploration Journal 23 (1973) 27-9.
Vardaman, E. Jerry. "Herodium, A Brief Assessment of Recent Suggestions." Israel Exploration Journal 25 (1975) 45-6.
--------. "The History of Herodium." In The Teacher's Yoke: Studies in Memory of Henry Trantham (ed. E. Jerry Vardaman and James Leo Garrett, Jr., with J. B. Adair; Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 1964) 58-81.
Yadin, Yigael. Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome. New York: Random House, 1971.
Literary Evidence
Primary Texts
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
Brighton, Mark Andrew. The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations, Early Judaism and Its Literature. Atlanta/Boston: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2009.
