²⁶ Certain novelists with scholarly pretensions, e.g. Ambelain (1972) and Messadié (1991), claim that Paul must have been born of a great noble family because he was a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch (Acts 13: 1). On this foundation great towers of speculation are raised. The Greek, however, makes it clear that Manaen alone was the foster-brother of Herod.