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 ...

“Naturally, I am sorry that you found Herod the Great disappointing,” she replied ... ♦ Published in the print edition of the January 20, 2025, issue, with the headline “Zora Neale Hurston ...

King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time ...

She’d spent 14 years obsessed by Herod’s story, researching and writing about that ... 89-year-old champagne maker and infamous widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot to her great-granddaughter Anne, describing ...

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 ...

More than 120 years ago, my great-grandfather Alexander William Brooks ... with Jesus to Egypt after an angel warned them of King Herod’s plot to kill the boy. So, I guess if you’re going ...

Over 60 years later, The Life of Herod the Great (HQ 12 hrs 7 mins) has been brought to a form of fruition by scholar Deborah G Plant, and is available in audio. I was drawn to it partly through ...

Super Bowl squares have been a highlight of parties for years, even making its way to regular season games thanks to ...

It’s common at this time of year. In it God says, “I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you perceive it?” Most people cling to this as ...