Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

Scholar and editor Deborah G. Plant shares with NPR the process of rescuing Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel, "The Life ...

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It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the hated king On a sticky Wednesday in 1973, the writer Alice Walker waded ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

And the Holy Innocents, victims of Herod’s persecution, give their lives in place of Jesus. They testify to him by their ...

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Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after Tiberius Claudius Herod Atticus, a wealthy Athenian who sponsored the building of this ancient outdoor ...

Modern scholars know quite a lot about Herod the Great, mostly because of the Judaean historian Flavius Josephus, who had access to court records. The Roman Emperor Augustus had given Herod the ...