Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...

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.

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 ...

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." ...

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

After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities ...

It’s Christmastime, the season of Christ, the Prince of peace. Unless we follow His ways, we will not get rid of the tyranny ...

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

Herod was simply the most successful warlord ... (The order, happily, was rescinded after his death.) Read More: How the Christmas Stories Call the Church to a Different Vision The story in ...

The Christmas story didn’t end on a high note in the Bible either. It was chaos and death. The wise men came and Herod didn’t ...