The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out ...

Furthermore, it confirms that calcite-alabaster objects, such as Herod the Great's alabaster bathtubs, were quarried in Israel rather than Egypt. Photo: Herod’s calcite-alabaster bathtub found ...

Paul Devlin on “The Life of Herod the Great,” by Zora Neale Hurston.

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

the 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple as part of King Herod the Great’s 37-20 BCE restoration and ...

Though many ancient sources portrayed Herod as a monstrous tyrant ... in 1866 from 89-year-old champagne maker and infamous widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot to her great-granddaughter Anne, describing the ...

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 ...

She even hoped that director Cecil B. DeMille might be interested in Herod, since he was “handsome, dashing, a great soldier, a great statesman, a great lover,” as she exclaimed to her agent.

But Hurston, unlike Herod, dared everything and lost. When Scribner’s rejected the work in 1955, she assured her editor that she wasn’t troubled by the news, perhaps because she had “such ...