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.

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

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

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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 ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the ...

This week the story of an anxious hedgehog and a biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm captured critics' attention.

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 ...

Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6; Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 Self-involvement is one of the great traps of the human heart. What do I mean by ...