Known both as the Finger of Og and as Herod’s Pillar, the 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple as part ...

Herod the Great, left, and the Second Temple. (Wikimedia Commons/iStock/Jerry Uomala) Impressive architectural projects and oppressive cruelty — these are the legacies of the complex Judean king ...

Caruso went on to explain that, for Herod’s first temple shown in the film, the production “adapted a large set built by Sir Ridley Scott to fit our needs, ...

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple. Known both as the Finger of Og and as Herod’s Pillar, the 12. ...