People who think they are important, who think that they are important enough to have their names live on, repeat their names again and again. What am I talking about? Take former heavyweight champion and now indoor grill king, George Foreman. Foreman is also the father of five sons. He named all five “George.” Don’t ask, “Who comes when called?”

Michael Jackson named both his sons “Prince Michael.” Michael’s older brother Jermaine Jackson named his daughter born in 2000 “Jermajesty.”

But these recent examples don’t begin to compete with the name-fame fixation that afflicted the family of Herod the Great. In fact it gets difficult to find any member of that dubious family, regional puppet-rulers for the Roman Emperors, who doesn’t sport the name “Herod” in their name in some fashion. Even th…