The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

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 ...

Paul Devlin on “The Life of Herod the Great,” by Zora Neale Hurston.

the 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple as part of King Herod the Great’s 37-20 BCE restoration and ...

They had to ask. Herod the Great, King of Judea, felt threatened when the Magi—wise men from the East—arrived in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were ...

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.

and that Herod, although a hothead, was also charismatic, politically astute and a brave soldier and ruler. With that in mind, Hurston’s version of the Jewish King is very much an old-fashione ...

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the flamboyant, mocking rebel among Harlem’s Black literary creatives as well as a ...