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 ...

Biblical teaching generally pushes Christians to advocate for submission to authorities, whether in politics or in the church ...

More than 120 years ago, my great-grandfather Alexander William ... Joseph and Mary fled with Jesus to Egypt after an angel warned them of King Herod’s plot to kill the boy.

Rome’s Jewish client king of Judea, Herod the Great, built several amphitheaters to host games in the province during his reign in the 1st century BCE, according to the Jewish historian Josephus ...

Originally built by King David in 1004 B.C., the walled Old ... You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate ...

Commendably, the government has risen to the occasion by taking up public complaints against the obvious royal misconduct.

The archaeological site north of Nablus linked to the memory of John the Baptist targeted by settlers (and the Israeli army) ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered ...

The Arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” A phrase once popularized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. echoed through the streets of midtown as residents gathered for the 31st ...

This was permitted by Our Lord that we might learn a lesson from His great ... A. Herod sought to kill the Infant Jesus because he thought the influence of Christ -- the new-born King -- would ...