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

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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." ...

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

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.

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 ...

It was a very dark time 2,000 years ago in the region we know as the Middle East. The Roman Empire, in a desire to continue ...

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(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.