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Herod I has been raised as a Jew but his sympathies with the Roman Empire has brought in Judah the many intrigues that militarized the kingdom with a power which was governed from Rome. "Toward the end of the campaign against Antigonus, Herod married the granddaughter of Hyrcanus II, Mariamne (known as Mariamne I), who was also a niece of Antigonus. Herod did this in an attempt to secure his claim to the throne and gain some Jewish favor. However, Herod already had a wife, Doris, and a young son, Antipater, and chose therefore to banish Doris and her child." "Herod took the role as sole ruler of Judea and the title of basileus (Βασιλεύς, "king") for himself, ushering in the Herodian Dynasty and ending the Hasmonean Dynasty." "Basileus is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs in history. (...) Under Roman rule, the term basileus came to be used, in the Hellenistic tradition, to designate the Roman Emperor in the everyday and literary speech of the Greek-speaking Eastern Mediterranean."

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"The Latin word basilica derives from the Greek (basilikè stoá), lit. "royal stoa (walkway)", originally referring to the tribunal chamber of a king. In Rome the word was at first used to describe an ancient Roman public building where courts were held, as well as serving other official and public functions. To a large extent these were the town halls of ancient Roman life. The basilica was centrally located in every Roman town, usually adjacent to the main forum. These buildings, an example of which is the Basilica Ulpia, were rectangular, and often had a central nave and aisles, usually with a slightly raised platform and an apse at each of the two ends, adorned with a statue perhaps of the emperor, while the entrances were from the long sides. (...) By extension the name was applied to Christian churches which adopted the same basic plan and it continues to be used as an architectural term to describe such buildings, which form the majority of church buildings in Western Christianity, though the basilican building plan became less dominant in new buildings from the later 20th century. Later, the term came to refer specifically to a large and important Roman Catholic church that has been given special ceremonial rights by the Pope."

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"Herod's despotic rule has been demonstrated by many of his security measures aimed at suppressing the contempt his people, especially Jews, had towards him. For instance, it has been suggested that Herod used secret police to monitor and report the feelings of the general populace towards him. He sought to prohibit protests, and had opponents removed by force. He had a bodyguard of 2,000 soldiers. Josephus describes various units of Herod's personal guard taking part in Herod's funeral, including the Doryphnoroi, and a Thracian, Celtic (probably Gallic) and Germanic contingent. While the term Doryphnoroi does not have an ethnic connotation, the unit was probably composed of distinguished veteran soldiers and young men from the most influential Jewish families. Thracians had served in the Jewish armies since the Hasmonean dynasty, while the Celtic contingent were former bodyguards of Cleopatra given as a gift by Augustus to Herod following the Battle of Actium. The Germanic contingent was modeled upon Augustus's personal bodyguard, the Germani Corporis Custodes, responsible for guarding the palace."

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Herod had married two wives, Doris and Mariamne. With his first wife, Dorian, he had a son, Antipater. Both Doris and Antipater were exiled after Herod married Mariamne." Herod had 3 other sons with his second wife, Mariamne. The two first heirs Aristobulus and Alexander were executed in 7BC. The oldest son, Antipater, was convicted of trying to poison his father (5 BC). The youngest son, Antipas became the last heir of Herod and the king of Judah. This is under the reign of Antipas that the Jesus of the Christian myth has been crucified. 

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"The study of Herod's reign includes polarizing opinions on the man himself. His critics have described him as "a madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis", "the evil genius of the Judean nation", and as one who would be "prepared to commit any crime in order to gratify his unbounded ambition." His extraordinary spending spree is cited as one of the causes of the serious impoverishment of the people he ruled, adding to the opinion that his reign was exclusively negative. Herod's religious policies gained a mixed response from the Jewish populace. Although Herod considered himself king of the Jews, he let it be known that he also represented the non-Jews living in Judea, building temples for other religions outside of the Jewish areas of his kingdom. Many Jews questioned the authenticity of Herod's Judaism on account of his Idumean background and his infamous murders of members of his family. However, he generally respected traditional Jewish observances in his public life. For instance, he minted coins without human images to be used in Jewish areas and acknowledged the sanctity of the Second Temple by employing priests in the construction of the Temple."

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The second temple of Jerusalem is also called the temple of Herod. It has been built with Jewish priests and the first High Priest was named Yeshua, son of Jozadak. The name of Jozadak means "from Jehova, who was made just" and the name of Yeshua in Hebrew is a verbal derivative from "to rescue", "to deliver", which describes the function of the High Priest. The Greek spelling for Yeshua is "iêsous", what became Jesus. Kristos is the Greek translation for Messiah. Both Jesus and Kristos are Greek names that nobody never had to translate since the Apostles, who were supposed to be Jews, have written in Greek rather than Hebrew.

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During the first century, Yosef ben Matityahu was born in Jerusalem to a father of priestly descent and a mother of royal ancestry. He was born in 37 CE and died in 100 CE. He was a scholar, an historian and an hagiographer. He is also the author or the Jewish Messianic prophecies that initiated the First Roman-Jewish War in 63 BE but he surrendered to the Roman Army with creating the myth saying that Titus Flavius would become the Messiah. Again, the word Messiah has not yet the sanctity that was given later by the Church, but to be the next Jewish Messiah was in Titus plans, the plan to control the Kingdom of Judah.

 

Yosef ben Matiyahu has become a very important figure that gave birth to the Christian Myth of Jesus. You can access the translation of his writing here. Some scholars have compared the writing of Yosef ben Matiyahu with the texts of the New Testaments and made the comparison of the historical sequences. They show that historical facts during the life of Titus, have been introduced inside the New Testament to make the text, and especially the saying of Jesus as written in the myth, to become legitimate. The comparison also shows that many Roman rituals were introduced to the texts and more importantly, the New Testament has changed the Jewish God into an anthropomorphic God who was sexually gendered, who had procreated with a human woman and gave birth to a human son, whose son, after his death, would enter the pantheon of Godness. The New Testament is typically a pagan scripture with a mix of other religions and mainly from Egypt.