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 ...

A cave tomb in central Israel, long believed to be the burial site of Jesus’ midwife, may instead hold the remains of Salome, the sister of Herod the Great. This unexpected interpretation comes from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...