Herod the Great and his son became the New Testament ... Photograph by Borchi Massimo/Fototeca 9x12 Palace intrigues and dynastic plots fueled a growing sense of paranoia in Herod.

But Hurston, unlike Herod, dared everything and lost. When Scribner’s rejected the work in 1955, she assured her editor that she wasn’t troubled by the news, perhaps because she had “such ...

(page 1) In Biblical history, Herod “the Great,” Rome’s client king of Judaea (ruled 40 - 4 BCE) was an evil tyrant. There is no actual evidence for the atrocity he is most remembered for, the ...