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." ...

My husband and I had the unfortunate need to drive through all the storms a few days after Christmas. As we came around a ...

The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.

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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 ...

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 ...

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This is the person we know as Herod the Great. For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political factor. Although they might not have seen Romans on a day-to ...

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 ...