Herod the Great?

History has bestowed on him the descriptive title, “the Great.” The primary Jewish chronicler of his period, Josephus, was the first to use the actual phrase “Herod the Great” in his Antiquities of the Jews. He used the phrase to distinguish Herod from his sons and grandsons of the same name. In other words, he used the title in the sense of “the Greater” or “the Older.” Whatever t