The piece is simple, yet striking: a carved wooden bust of a female figure, about two feet tall, serene and calm. A braid ...

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 ...

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

Throughout her life and work, Hurston was devoted to completing unfinished narratives. The Life of Herod the Great – a “lost” novel that was published for the first time this month – opens with a ...

(John 14:27) Jesus was born into a world troubled by violence, anger, greed and avarice. Before he was 2 years old, Herod the Great, afraid of what risk the Christ child might pose to his power, ...

Plays performed on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28) invariably commemorated the story of King Herod ordering the execution of all male children in Bethlehem under two years old.

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Archaeologists have reportedly pinpointed the location of a pivotal battle led by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago. The ancient battlefield was discovered near the Biga River, previously ...

Seventy years after the Great Revolt, in which Titus destroyed ... “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king”… Bethlehem is the same city in which Rachel ...

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 ...

The Great Barrier Reef is still recovering from the damage caused by Cyclone Jasper a year ago. Scientists say mud and mangrove damage is posing a large threat to reef rehabilitation.