The matter right now is not just the global backlash against refugees but the glee with which some anti-refugee figures ...

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 ...

Hurston spent something like fifteen years researching and writing “Herod.” She called it her “great obsession.” This was far more time than she spent on any other book project.

Herod's Pillar, or the Finger of Og, lies openly in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Close to Jaffa Street, at the entrance to the Russian Compound, lies an ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the flamboyant, mocking rebel among Harlem’s Black literary creatives as well as a ...

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22 But when he learnt that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as ruler of Judaea he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he left for the region of Galilee. 23 There he settled in ...

He was active in the city of Rome about the beginning of the second century. This marble plaque was made by a Pater and priest Lucius Septimius Archelaus of Mithras for him, his wife and his freedmen ...

Herod’s son Archelaus, Josephus wrote, “brought forth all the royal ornaments to accompany the procession in honor of the deceased. The bier was of solid gold, studded with precious stones ...