This year, the conference organizers asked participants to study different texts that describe the death of a mystery figure from history (who turned out to be King Herod), and come up with an ...

Herod the Great and his son became the New Testament ... and narrowly escaped being condemned to death. Having at first received the blessing of Rome, the independent Jewish kingdom increasingly ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

But when Herod died, in Jericho at about age 69—probably ... (As Kasher notes in his biography, "Herod the Great" was, for the Jews, an ironic title, designating an arrogant monarch who scorned ...

He spent quality time with His friends and wept when one of them died. He felt hungry and tired ... He went through it so ...

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.

As a novel about life, Herod the Great is also about death: of Roman elites, of semi-independent states, of those rebelling Judeans who valiantly but often unsuccessfully attempted to avoid famine ...