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.

That’s thanks to the film’s on-location shoot in ancient, abandoned villages in Morocco, and also, apparently, thanks to an old Ridley Scott set that Mary borrowed for King Herod’s palace in ...

COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous ruler who in the Christmas story forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty ...

The story in Matthew’s gospel, that the rumor of a new-born king produced a violent reaction, feels typical of Herod: just in ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the hated king On a sticky Wednesday in 1973, the writer Alice Walker waded ...

When the news of the birth of the prophecized messiah in Bethlehem reaches King Herod, he hastily orders Marcellus to kill all male children who are two years old and under in Bethlehem.

THE birth of Jesus of Nazareth and the values that he taught and lived for are overshadowed today by the continuous spread of materialism. This philosophy is driven by the desire of many people to be ...

(That’s probably a misunderstanding anyway.) No. The real baddie, looming up behind the whole narrative, is King Herod. Modern scholars know quite a lot about Herod the Great, mostly because of ...

No genre gesture goes untapped in this Netflix film, a coming-of-age saga about the Virgin Mary featuring Anthony Hopkins as King Herod. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an ...

If you've already finished the film, then you might be curious about the final scenes, particularly what happens to Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus, as well as the volatile King Herod. Directed by D ...

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