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Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?
But Hurston, unlike Herod, dared everything and lost. When Scribner’s rejected the work in 1955, she assured her editor that ...
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Herod I: The controversial king who transformed the Holy Land
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 ...