Lifshits is a co-author with IAA archaeologist Nir-Shimshon Paran of the study in the latest issue of the IAA journal 'Atiqot ...

A cave tomb in central Israel, long believed to be the burial site of Jesus’ midwife, may instead hold the remains of Salome, ...

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Hurston wrote The Life of Herod the Great as a continuation, which reconsiders the life of the Biblical figure of the same name. Akindele John/Stephen Brayda/HarperCollins Compared to figures like ...

But then a financial savior appeared, in the unlikely form of Herod the Great, King of Judea ... the ancient historian Josephus records Herod had his name recorded as perpetual president of ...

Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston, the accomplished Black writer, folklorist and ...

The all-consuming subject? “The life story of HEROD THE GREAT,” she wrote. “You have no idea the great amount of research that I have done on this man.” Hurston believed that history had ...

“Naturally, I am sorry that you found Herod the Great disappointing,” she replied ... legends which have been built up around his name has to have courage.” Harper & Brothers was Richard ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

Hurston wrote The Life of Herod the Great as a continuation, which reconsiders the life of the Biblical figure of the same name. Compared to figures like Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, Herod lived ...