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 of Herod the Great." ...

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The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.

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Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the ...

After 14 years of research, Hurston concluded that his most heinous act – the Massacre of the Innocents, as recorded in Matthew’s Gospel – did not actually take place, and that Herod ...

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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 ...