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.

Scholar and editor Deborah G. Plant shares with NPR the process of rescuing Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel, "The Life ...

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

L ike a shoddy police procedural with an easily-recognizable bad guy—the unshaven one with the heavy accent—the Christmas ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

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 ...