Talk:Herod Philip I
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I just re-wrote the article. Herodias was not the wife of Philip, as this quote from Josephus (vol 18,5,1) will show: "ABOUT this time Aretas (the king of Arabia Petres) and Herod had a quarrel on the account following: Herod the tetrarch had, married the daughter of Aretas, and had lived with her a great while; but when he was once at Rome, he lodged with Herod, who was his brother indeed, but not by the same mother; for this Herod was the son of the high priest Sireoh's daughter. However, he fell in love with Herodias, this last Herod's wife, who was the daughter of Aristobulus their brother, and the sister of Agrippa the Great".
/Martin Hagstrøm, Denmark
Herod, the son of Mariamne II, was called Herod Philip. So there is no conflict between the Gospel accounts and Josephus.
How does it come that Herod the great (Herod I) named his child by his third wife Mariamne II to Herod Philip II, and then his child by his fifth wife Clepatra of Jerusalem to Herod Philip I?
/Malin Klangeryd, Sweden
