Everyone who’s ever gone to Israel seems to come back saying, “It makes the Bible come alive.” I longed to experience that for myself but never had the opportunity until last month, when the Israeli ...
In this unfinished novel, Hurston (1891–1960) attempts a biblical retelling similar to her novel Moses, Man of the Mountain, unspooling a stimulating if rushed revisionist narrative of Herod the Great ...
In the soon-to-be-published “The Life of Herod the Great,” Zora Neale Hurston reframes one of the Bible’s greatest villains. Over 60 years after her death, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing still astounds ...
No doubt about it, King Herod has a bad name. Historians may doubt the passage in Matthew that has him ordering the slaughter of Bethlehem infants in hopes of eliminating the newborn Messiah, but as ...
When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod. There were different rulers called Herod who formed part of the background history of Jesus and the New Testament. This is the ...
Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston’s final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston, the accomplished Black writer, folklorist and ...
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) spent her financially distressed final decade enthralled by the life of King Herod and working on a novel about him. The books of the 1930s and ’40s that made her ...
COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous Biblical ruler who in the Christmas legend forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty of modern heirs driving our hemisphere's migrant crisis today.
A posthumous novel from Zora Neale Hurston, The Life of Herod the Great, is set for a 2025 release. Hurston, who died in 1960, emerged as a prominent author during the Harlem Renaissance as she ...
Herod the Great expanded the Second Jewish Temple and built the walls of the old city of Jerusalem. The Romans appointed him King of the Jews in 40 BC. The Christian Gospel of Matthew says that Herod ...
Over 60 years after her death, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing still astounds — and soon, lovers of her work will have a new offering from the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author. Per People magazine, ...
In part 1 of this article, Marshall Shelley describes what his trip to Israel taught him about Herod the Great. Here in part 2, he describes what he learned about Jesus. One of the best reasons to ...