Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination.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

Jesus has always been a “sign of contradiction” and division, even from his birth: in two days, we’ll recall how Herod plotted to ... (that he will destroy the Temple and rebuild it in ...

Joseph lurking outside a curtained Roman temple; Herod in a royal blue cloak. “This was the dawn of Christian iconography,” Ms. Paxton said, “and the mosaic artists were experimenting.” ...

St Louis is shown paired with Solomon, the Sainte Chapelle is his temple, and Paris has become ... He commissioned some of the greatest religious art of the period, and he was a passionate ...

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

The all-consuming subject? “The life story of HEROD THE GREAT,” she wrote. “You have no idea the great amount of research that I have done on this man.” Hurston believed that history had ...

A brief history of Israel ...

She’d spent 14 years obsessed by Herod’s story, researching and writing about that ... having been inspired by the humanity of his painting “The Blind Leading the Blind.” She tends to a wounded ...

Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after ... the locale serves as the site for many theater, music and art festivals, including the Athens and ...