The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...
Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?
Would Herod and Salome be able to return home if John the Baptist did not forgive them? The irony of the Law is that He must, otherwise He, too, would be attached to them through bitterness and be ...
During advent, we are introduced to the subject of repentance by John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus ... John also rebuked the ruling authority of his day, Herod, for his marriage to his brother ...
Herod reportedly ordered the killing of baby ... He asked his cousin, John the Baptist, to baptise him in the River Jordan and shortly afterwards, Antipas ordered John’s head delivered to ...
Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist is a central figure in Christian faith, a spiritual beacon who shaped the history of salvation. Known as “the last of the prophets,” he..
It’s based on the Biblical story of princess Salome, who becomes infatuated with John the Baptist (Jochanaan in the opear), who is a prisoner in her stepfather King Herod. In exchange for ...