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

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

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 ...

"The gospels give me hope, however. ... After all, Joseph and Mary fled with Jesus to Egypt after an angel warned them of ...

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 ...

The decade has been a great one for readers so far ... spent many years writing a historical novel about the biblical King ...

With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...

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 ...