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Several weeks ago I announced that the ever popular Bible History Daily, published via e-mail and on on the Web, has begun a regular feature of republishing selected posts from my blog. I am both honored and also always a bit curious as to which of the 500 or so posts from the past few years they might choose to feature. Today it is a more recent post titled “That Other King of the Jews.” You can see the BHD post here, with links to the original blog post and other items of interest. In this post I deal with the knotty issue of whether either Jesus or his followers claimed he was of Davidic lineage and what that implied in the political-religious world of Herod the Great and his successors.

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