Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Residues of Childhood in the Late Hasmonaean Period (73/72-63 BCE) -- Chapter 2. Adolescence in the Shadow of the Roman Conquest (63-42 BCE) -- Chapter 3. From the Utmost Depths to the Conquest of Jerusalem (41-37 BCE) -- Chapter 4. Herod in the First Year of His Reign (37 BCE) -- Chapter 5. Roots and Ramifications of the Hasmonaean Trauma (37-34 BCE) -- Chapter 6. Cleopatra VII's Influence on Relations between Herod and Antony (34-31 BCE) -- Chapter 7. Elimination of Herod's Hasmonaean Family Members (30-28 BCE) -- Chapter 8. Construction and Prosperity in the Shadow of Oppression (27-10 BCE) -- Chapter 9. Herod's Address in Preparation for the Building of the Holy Temple (22/23 BCE) -- Chapter 10. Hidden Motivations for Building the Holy Temple: "Rivalry" with the Hasmonaeans and a Desire to Flaunt His Grandeur -- Chapter 11. Return to Daily Reality amid New Tensions (18-14 BCE) -- Chapter 12. A Turn for the Worse at Home and Continued Activity Abroad (14-10 BCE) -- Chapter 13. Further Deterioration in Herod's Mental State and Worsening Relations with his Hasmonaean Sons (10-9 BCE) -- Chapter 14. A Downward Spiral at Home and Abroad (9-7 BCE) -- Chapter 15. Lead-Up to the Great Explosion (8-7 BCE) -- Chapter 16. The Tragic End of Alexander and Aristobulus (7 BCE) -- Chapter 17. Antipater's Subversion in the Royal Court of Jerusalem (7-5 BCE) -- Chapter 18. The Bitter Fate of Antipater -- Chapter 19. Descent into Oblivion (4 BCE) -- Chapter 20. Post-Mortem -- Afterword -- Backmatter.