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." ...

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 ...

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.

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And the Holy Innocents, victims of Herod’s persecution, give their lives in place of Jesus. They testify to him by their ...

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THE birth of Jesus of Nazareth and the values that he taught and lived for are overshadowed today by the continuous spread of ...

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 ...