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 ...

In The Life of Herod the Great, the titular king’s advisers and subjects alike have nothing but praise for the tall, handsome hero, complimenting his fighting prowess (“What a marvelous hurl ...

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 ...

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.

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

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 ...