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

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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.

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

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 ...