In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts how the king orders the death of all baby boys following the birth of Jesus, an event called ...

In the King’s Cake, the hidden 'baby' represents Jesus, symbolizing the moment when Mary and Joseph hid him to protect him from Herod. The circular shape of the cake is a symbol of God’s ...

Here is a historical example. Herod was the Roman-appointed King of Judea when a baby boy named Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph in a manger. This poor couple lived in a foreign land. The child ...

The day is celebrated in memory of the children killed by King Herod of Judea in an attempt to eliminate the newborn baby Jesus Christ, who he feared could take over his kingdom (Matthew 2:16-18).

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 ...

“Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?”. Herod immediately feared a threat to his rule and was keen to locate the baby. He did this by asking the chief priests and teachers of ...